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And Canada saw uptick in move to canada searches after Trump. A lot of the most vocal are still in the States. The twitterati are addicted to drama and outrage

And Canada saw uptick in move to canada searches after Trump. A lot of the most vocal are still in the States. The twitterati are addicted to drama and outrage - in a brilliant move Musk provides them both. They can't get their act clean - if they could twitter wouldn't be cesspool to begin with.

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TMWNN 4y ago
>And Canada saw uptick in move to canada searches after Trump. This actually didn't happen. I can't find the article now, but the Canadian government agency that handles immigration was making changes to its IT infrastructure the day of the 2016 US presidential election; this was the cause of the "Canadian immigration website overloaded after Trump election" headlines. >~~A lot of the most vocal~~ 100% are still in the States. FTFY
klodolph 4y ago
Twitter's a cesspool if you go straight to the default feed, the same way you might say that NYC is a cesspool if you go straight to Times Square. "How much is Twitter a cesspool" is a question that the advertisers are asking, because they care about brand safety. You wouldn't ask someone on HN what they thought about Twitter, because you'd have selection bias.
causi 4y ago
The twitterati are addicted to drama and outrage Which is why it's weird Musk didn't see this shitstorm coming. I neither agree nor disagree with what Musk has done and plans to do with Twitter, but it seems incredibly obvious he should have rolled his changes out slowly over a period of months.
- pjc50 4y ago
  Elon, as head of the twitterati, is also addicted to drama, which is why he wants to make as big and dramatic a change as possible in a very short time.
the_mitsuhiko 4y ago
My hunch is that a move to Canada is a lot more complex and laborious than creating a mastodon account.
- stavros 4y ago
  But at least they'll apologize for that.
colinsane 4y ago
> The twitterati are addicted to drama and outrage the amount of new people who have overrun my fedi timeline with Twitter discourse initially corroborates that. of course, i can't discuss this on my fedi timeline without adding to it (so i complain about it here and do my best to mute '#twitter', '#elon' etc over there). i do hope that my new neighbors will come to see this space as its own unique thing rather than "twitter but not twitter.com" though. i think this has mostly been true with the previous influxes.

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TMWNN 4y ago

>And Canada saw uptick in move to canada searches after Trump. This actually didn't happen. I can't find the article now, but the Canadian government agency that handles immigration was making changes to its IT infrastructure the day of the 2016 US presidential election; this was the cause of the "Canadian immigration website overloaded after Trump election" headlines. >~~A lot of the most vocal~~ 100% are still in the States. FTFY

klodolph 4y ago

Twitter's a cesspool if you go straight to the default feed, the same way you might say that NYC is a cesspool if you go straight to Times Square. "How much is Twitter a cesspool" is a question that the advertisers are asking, because they care about brand safety. You wouldn't ask someone on HN what they thought about Twitter, because you'd have selection bias.

causi 4y ago

The twitterati are addicted to drama and outrage Which is why it's weird Musk didn't see this shitstorm coming. I neither agree nor disagree with what Musk has done and plans to do with Twitter, but it seems incredibly obvious he should have rolled his changes out slowly over a period of months.

pjc50 4y ago
Elon, as head of the twitterati, is also addicted to drama, which is why he wants to make as big and dramatic a change as possible in a very short time.

the_mitsuhiko 4y ago

My hunch is that a move to Canada is a lot more complex and laborious than creating a mastodon account.

stavros 4y ago
But at least they'll apologize for that.

colinsane 4y ago

> The twitterati are addicted to drama and outrage the amount of new people who have overrun my fedi timeline with Twitter discourse initially corroborates that. of course, i can't discuss this on my fedi timeline without adding to it (so i complain about it here and do my best to mute '#twitter', '#elon' etc over there). i do hope that my new neighbors will come to see this space as its own unique thing rather than "twitter but not twitter.com" though. i think this has mostly been true with the previous influxes.