> an ease with leaving twitter if these get enacted I'll believe that one when I see it; feels very much like celebs announcing they're moving to Canada. More

> an ease with leaving twitter if these get enacted I'll believe that one when I see it; feels very much like celebs announcing they're moving to Canada. More broadly, I think the original tweet thread picks up on something interesting: that blue-check group is bifurcated into actual-clout-havers, e.g. Steven King, who really could/would walk away, and epsilon-from-irrelevant journos who have it as a facet of their employment, who really couldn't. There's a small overlap of journos-with-actual-clout, but they're the exception. Low-clout journos are riding on the cachet generated by the other group, and benefit more from Twitter than they contribute. This is obviously anecdotal so I can't cite or anything, but in conversations with non-tech people IRL I tend to notice a stack of assumptions: Steven King == blue check == important =?= rando journalist =?= also important? If you're a reporter in Columbus, OH or whatever, the effectiveness of that platform, handed to you by the Twitter gods, vastly outstrips your "actual" impact. Steven King doesn't care. Journalist who wants to believe they're a member of the same club as Steven King definitely cares.