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Re: [Link Posting] I kind of hate Twitter

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On 2019-02-22, Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> wrote:
> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2019-02-22, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>>       ####################################################################
>>>       # ATTENTION: This post is a reference to a website.  The poster of #
>>>       # this Usenet article is not the author of the referenced website. #
>>>       ####################################################################
>>>
>>><URL:https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/02/i-kind-of-hate-twitter/>
>>>
>>> The text below is a quotation from the URL above:
>>>>
>>>>  So conservative writer Matt K. Lewis took to the pages of The Week this
>>>>  week to explain how he hates Twitter:
>>>>
>>>>  Twitter has become like high school, where the mean kids say something
>>>>  hurtful to boost their self-esteem and to see if others will laugh and
>>>>  join in. 
>> 
>> Just like Usenet, then.
>> 
>
> No, much worse because it's so much faster -- post a twit and other
> twits respond to it almost immediately. Contra usenet which sometimes
> used to take *days* to propagate a message and follow-ups.

Not in the bits of it I was latterly using. It was entirely possible
to conduct "real time" conversations, 'a la' Twitter on Usenet at
its peak, at least in groups such as uk.misc and alt.tasteless.


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[Link Posting] I kind of hate Twitter Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-02-22 18:15 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] I kind of hate Twitter Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-02-22 20:00 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] I kind of hate Twitter Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-02-22 21:21 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] I kind of hate Twitter Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-02-22 22:31 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] I kind of hate Twitter Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-02-23 06:57 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] I kind of hate Twitter RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-02-23 15:16 -0500
      Re: [Link Posting] I kind of hate Twitter Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-02-23 19:42 -0400
        Re: [Link Posting] I kind of hate Twitter gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-02-24 12:30 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] I kind of hate Twitter Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-02-24 18:09 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] I kind of hate Twitter Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-02-24 17:02 -0400
      Re: [Link Posting] I kind of hate Twitter Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-02-24 09:01 +0000

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