Why is Twitter So Fucked Up?

[NQ 952]

What I'm asking is: why are the people behind Twitter and those associated with it so monumentally fucked up?

Consider this: before she was Feminist Frequency, Anita Sarkeesian was an MLM marketer that spent user contributions on expensive backpacking trips to Puerto Rico and was feeling pressure from the IRS. Once she jumped ship and became FemFreq and deeply associated herself with Twitter those IRS problems went away. She's now part of the Twitter "trust and safety counsel."

Nicholas "Sarah" Nyberg, Dan Olson, and Chelsea "Zoe Quinn" Valkenberg all have a history of histronics and bullshit, but their "convention" - Crash Override Network, or CON - is a "trusted" partner of Twitter and an "official" Twitter convention. Their private Skype chat for CON recently outed it as nothing more than a RICO racket, and their "Social Media Manager" was collecting user information to use for extortion.

Nicholas and Chelsea both have a well documented history, with Nicholas being a pedophile that uses his position of authority to take pictures of the crotches of little boys (or what the social justice crowd would call "rape"), and Chelsea having a very well documented history of abuse, which has resulted in her burning every bridge in major cities like Toronto, Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco.

Dan Olson is really close friends with Nyberg, so close that he's posted pictures of little kids in bathing suits on 8chan. Creepily close. Child Raping close.

Still, there are other people. It's well known that Nyberg has a friend working at Twitter that can get accounts banned at will. That association alone is pretty creepy, given the child pornography associations.

Then there are people outside of the RICO racket, like Leslie Jones, who chimped out like a black baby's momma getting her WIC card declined. Good old CEO Jack, and even NBC, have her a pat on the back for that one.

So at the end of the day, I have to posit this question: is this really all about a fucking political stance, like "social justice" and "feminism" or is there something else going on here with the people at the top? Could people like Jack Dorsey be trying to hide their own proclivities by protecting others with similar child raping interests?

 

[CatParty]

What I'm asking is: why are the people behind Twitter and those associated with it so monumentally fucked up?

Consider this: before she was Feminist Frequency, Anita Sarkeesian was an MLM marketer that spent user contributions on expensive backpacking trips to Puerto Rico and was feeling pressure from the IRS. Once she jumped ship and became FemFreq and deeply associated herself with Twitter those IRS problems went away. She's now part of the Twitter "trust and safety counsel."

Nicholas "Sarah" Nyberg, Dan Olson, and Chelsea "Zoe Quinn" Valkenberg all have a history of histronics and bullshit, but their "convention" - Crash Override Network, or CON - is a "trusted" partner of Twitter and an "official" Twitter convention. Their private Skype chat for CON recently outed it as nothing more than a RICO racket, and their "Social Media Manager" was collecting user information to use for extortion.

Nicholas and Chelsea both have a well documented history, with Nicholas being a pedophile that uses his position of authority to take pictures of the crotches of little boys (or what the social justice crowd would call "rape"), and Chelsea having a very well documented history of abuse, which has resulted in her burning every bridge in major cities like Toronto, Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco.

Dan Olson is really close friends with Nyberg, so close that he's posted pictures of little kids in bathing suits on 8chan. Creepily close. Child Raping close.

Still, there are other people. It's well known that Nyberg has a friend working at Twitter that can get accounts banned at will. That association alone is pretty creepy, given the child pornography associations.

Then there are people outside of the RICO racket, like Leslie Jones, who chimped out like a black baby's momma getting her WIC card declined. Good old CEO Jack, and even NBC, have her a pat on the back for that one.

So at the end of the day, I have to posit this question: is this really all about a fucking political stance, like "social justice" and "feminism" or is there something else going on here with the people at the top? Could people like Jack Dorsey be trying to hide their own proclivities by protecting others with similar child raping interests?

Lol it's just a social media platform for shitposting

 

[Splendid]

If you're butthurt about social media data harvesting, don't fucking be on social media.
Nobody should be on any social media but LinkedIn. The rest is bullshit. There's no excuse.

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

idk, you'll have a lot more fun with it if you just retweet cute anime memes for 30 minutes and call it a day.

 

[melty]

I actually wouldn't be surprised. This kind of thing has been going on in government and certain circles forever, right? It's not the most far fetched conspiracy theory.

 

[RJ MacReady]

Twitter came out of Silicon Valley, a business culture which emphasises "profitable progressivism": Facebook, Google, Apple, etc. align themselves with liberal causes because tech in general has always been associated with liberal thought and it's good marketing appeal to young people, the most valuable demographic in the world. So right off the bat this makes Twitter vulnerable to manipulation by sociopaths like Wu, Anita and Nyberg because the thought process of modern activism is that if a company/individual is silent on a topic or doesn't fit your interpretation of it, they're willfully evil. Twitter needs to ride along to "fit in" but of course the irony is that in doing so they hand these people far more power and influence than they otherwise would've had.

Secondly, Twitter's a business failure, and doesn't have the cash to deal with PR controversies when angry feminists, etc. get the mainstream media involved as they often do because another trend in modern media is just repeating minor Twitter dramas as news, blowing them up into major firestorms so they can be further reported upon and then asking where Twitter was to put out the flames and quell the harassment of innocent gibbering trannies. The obvious case in point here is Gamer gate.

Third and most importantly, Twitter is infamously poorly managed (part of why it's rapidly decaying) and the people in charge are spineless. This is why someone like Nyberg can have a rogue Twitter staffer in his pocket as an attack dog; no properly run business lets an individual run free with that much power and that little oversight to abuse their privileges for kudos with whatever cause they support. They let this happen because they didn't have the integrity and balls to make some basic efforts to seem mindful and then say "fuck off" to focus on making money rather than dooming their business to appease a group of unprofitable dumbfucks by handing them veto points and power over the company.

Twitter will get bought out sooner or later at a laughably low price and then I think it'll slowly lapse into irrelevance unless changes are made. They can't make money and remain a major player in social media by slighting or shutting out almost everyone who doesn't agree with their kingmakers, which in the big wide world of the web will inevitably be a lot of people.

 

[Without A Gout]

It's simple: The human ego. I've always considered it to be like someone pointlessly writing a status about their day on Facebook, just more centralized and concise. And now that anyone can write whatever the fuck they want on there, it makes everyone feel like they are important. This is why they attract self-important cows like John Flynt, Zoe Quinn, and Nick Nyberg: It feeds their egos and need for asspats.

 

[waffle]

I know a guy who works for twitter, and he'll be the first one to tell you that one of the major reasons they don't make a single god damn cent is because their community management is fucked to to the point that no investors/partners will take them seriously. The whole company is run by a bunch of SF hipsters who hold it together on a shoe string and have no idea how a business or community management should work/look.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

I just blame Anita sarkeesian

 

[JU 199]

What I'm asking is: why are the people behind Twitter and those associated with it so monumentally fucked up?

So at the end of the day, I have to posit this question: is this really all about a fucking political stance, like "social justice" and "feminism" or is there something else going on here with the people at the top? Could people like Jack Dorsey be trying to hide their own proclivities by protecting others with similar child raping interests?

No, it's just narcissism on the userbase's part and a lax attitude on Twitter's part. There's no giant SJW conspiracy it's just a very large corporation being wank and users that shitpost about X.

 

[Wallace]

I’ve argued this elsewhere before, but my theory is that Twitter enables narcissistic behavior. The nature of social media is that it allows you to craft a carefully curated false self to project online, and to easily find a group of people who will praise you if you speak the right buzzwords. Twitter is also a social competition in that political capital is measured in followers and retweets. Since the thing that will generate the most retweets is outrage, there is social pressure to create more and increasingly ludicrous manufactured outrage. The winners of this Red Queen’s Race will be the ones who are able to do so with the approval of their own psyche: the narcissists who find it acceptable to lie, cheat, and harm others in pursuit of idealizing their false online self.

 

[Morbid Boredom]

It's difficult to communicate intelligent thoughts in such a limited number of letters. Just look at bumper stickers.

Twitter is for people making quips (perfect length!) shitposters (who cares about length!) or idiots (who can't craft well-thought-out and lengthy posts anyway).

 

[Ruin]

Twitter is social interaction stripped down to the lowest common denominator and like other trends which follow the same trajectory inevitably appeal to the less clever segments of society.

Tl,dr Twitter users are idiots.

 

[Splendid]

Twitter doesn't let people rate each other autistic so they don't know when to shut up about stupid shit that nobody cares about.
Put @Null in charge of Twitter and he'll fix it.

 

[feedtheoctopus]

Social media in general is basically a giant self centered wank fest.

 

[Jaiman]

anime and mlp