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You have to be smart to get a doctorate ... this tweet is dumb. Although I am sure his 10 followers were relieved to get insight into his thinking on the subje

You have to be smart to get a doctorate ... this tweet is dumb. Although I am sure his 10 followers were relieved to get insight into his thinking on the subject.

lazyeye 5y ago
Why is it dumb and what does the number of followers have to do with anything? If he had more followers does that mean his tweet was more accurate?
- shapefrog 5y ago
  Blurting our thoughts out into the ether, be they smart or dumb thoughts is a pretty stupid thing to do. One does not 'contribute to the conversation' when they tweet, inform people or do anythign of any real benefit to society. Indeed, everyone rushing onto twitter to give their opinion about every single happening in the world might actually be the source of many of the worlds problems at this particular time. Hell, even writing and posting this comment is stupid. Upside, the few people who I know and follow me see some considered take I have about something, which becuase they actually know me they knew anyway. Downside, I say something utterly stupid, it 'goes viral' or gets indexed and one day someone pulls it out and says 'hey look this guy is a piece of shit'.
  - lazyeye 5y ago
    "Blurting our thoughts out into the ether, be they smart or dumb thoughts is a pretty stupid thing to do." Not sure how to respond to this.
    - shapefrog 5y ago
      Go browse twitter; there are 500million tweets sent ech day, occasionally something worthwhile gets said, sadly the vast majority not worthwhile.
  - malcolmgreaves 5y ago
    > everyone rushing onto twitter to give their opinion about every single happening Replace Twitter with Hacker News and we have this entire thread. Your original comment on the article is equivalent to: > Blurting our thoughts out into the ether, It's a lone comment until someone sees it and decides to engage with it.
    - shapefrog 5y ago
      I 100% agree. > Hell, even writing and posting this comment is stupid. Upside, nobody sees it, those that do dont care or you get some juicy internet upvotes. Downside, your employer who you commented on sees it.

You have to be smart to get a doctorate ... this tweet is dumb. Although I am sure his 10 followers were relieved to get insight into his thinking on the subject.

lazyeye 5y ago

Why is it dumb and what does the number of followers have to do with anything? If he had more followers does that mean his tweet was more accurate?

shapefrog 5y ago
Blurting our thoughts out into the ether, be they smart or dumb thoughts is a pretty stupid thing to do. One does not 'contribute to the conversation' when they tweet, inform people or do anythign of any real benefit to society. Indeed, everyone rushing onto twitter to give their opinion about every single happening in the world might actually be the source of many of the worlds problems at this particular time. Hell, even writing and posting this comment is stupid. Upside, the few people who I know and follow me see some considered take I have about something, which becuase they actually know me they knew anyway. Downside, I say something utterly stupid, it 'goes viral' or gets indexed and one day someone pulls it out and says 'hey look this guy is a piece of shit'.
- lazyeye 5y ago
  "Blurting our thoughts out into the ether, be they smart or dumb thoughts is a pretty stupid thing to do." Not sure how to respond to this.
  - shapefrog 5y ago
    Go browse twitter; there are 500million tweets sent ech day, occasionally something worthwhile gets said, sadly the vast majority not worthwhile.
- malcolmgreaves 5y ago
  > everyone rushing onto twitter to give their opinion about every single happening Replace Twitter with Hacker News and we have this entire thread. Your original comment on the article is equivalent to: > Blurting our thoughts out into the ether, It's a lone comment until someone sees it and decides to engage with it.
  - shapefrog 5y ago
    I 100% agree. > Hell, even writing and posting this comment is stupid. Upside, nobody sees it, those that do dont care or you get some juicy internet upvotes. Downside, your employer who you commented on sees it.