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> Neighbors and friends denouncing each other for minor transgressions. Does this happen often on Twitter? Literally every example I've ever read about on Twi
by jancsika 6y ago
> Neighbors and friends denouncing each other for minor transgressions.
Does this happen often on Twitter?
Literally every example I've ever read about on Twitter is one of the following:
1. some poster completely unknown to the person in question-- either revealing content of old Tweets or aggressively responding to a recent utterance. Then that goes viral.
2. some victim of assault makes an accusation as a last ditch effort to stop a monster from continuing to assault victims.
I know plenty of examples of Facebook's instigation algo ripping at the seams of otherwise close-knit communities. But those are cases of a nasty divorce spilling out into public posts, or a political disagreement suddenly turning into, "Someone should burn so-and-so's house down!" Weird shit.
I've never witnessed any people who are friends or neighbors with each other attempt police each other's minor transgressions on Twitter.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoThere have been several cases of exactly this, e.g. students ratting out their professors for some kind of ideological heresy, or journalists agitating for coworkers to be fired based on what they publish. But even when the first finder is a stranger, it's the people you know who have to do the damage. Some Twitter mob gets after your company to fire you. Only works if your boss, i.e. someone you know, folds to the mob. So in the end it's always friends and neighbors turning on each other.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoFor a recent example, a woman in her 30s was asked to resign from Teen Vogue because her colleagues weren't comfortable with a joke about East Asian eyelids that she tweeted as a teenager. Even though her coworkers weren't the one who uncovered the tweet, if they didn't take the bait she'd still be working there