Ben Collins' personal Twitter presence did real damage to the credibility of modern political journalists, imho. His tweets were soaked in that glib faux-disti

Ben Collins' personal Twitter presence did real damage to the credibility of modern political journalists, imho. His tweets were soaked in that glib faux-distinterested mid-2010s hyper-online style (but he would still tweet four times an hour, carefully calculating the most likely-to-trend level of ironic detachment for his 'epic' dunk on whoever Twitter's victim of the day was). He had a memorable feud with Nate Silver, in which he (Collins) demonstrated utter ignorance of elementary math, to farm likes off of the then-'out' Silver. Collins treated Twitter like he was the starring character in a high school melodrama. For almost any 'bad Twitter take' cliché you can think of, there's a Ben Collins tweet (which, to be fair, is still much less bad than the worst of the new Twitter). The Onion is a good landing point for him.