Wasn't twitter designed for the short-attention span types who didn't want to read long ass blog posts?

And now people just write long ass blog posts in a series of 100 tweets, each one time stamped and with all the other visual clutter.

God I fucking hate twitter. Or, more accurately, I hate what twitter has become.

FUCK THIS SHIT. Stop it. There are no Twitter "threads." It is the absolute worst platform possible for diatribes. Take 3 minutes to set up a blog and tweet a link to an actual article you lazy fucks.

@2: I think the problem here is discovery, most persons don't have a RSS feed list since Google Reader disappeared (yes, I use Inoreader) and lack the desire to set one up.

At least this one is more coherent and bite sized than the previous one posted. I get that blogs are a better source, but persons don't read blogs as much as they tweet.

Makes me cringe inside when college faculty pat their own backs by making public their students' struggles, even anonymously. That kid crying in your office wasn't about you.

@1,

I think the less accurate version of your statement would suffice.

*Trump voters ignore facts*

"I can fix this! Here, read my list of facts!"

No, that's not worth my time. However worthy the subject matter, I can't read it in that format. It's like reading a newspaper where each individual article is divided up and then written over 100 flashcards. Who the hell likes long Twitter threads? No one, that's who.

These complaints about Twitter remind me of the time you guys tried to get everybody to quit Facebook and use Google+ or Diaspora or some shit like that instead.

In the meantime: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Dan Savage: Troll, Robot, and/or Dictator? I'd say the 1st and the 3rd.

I look forward to the impending demise of Twitter like I used to look forward to Christmas. And I look forward to the day when Dan has to shut up about Twitter almost as much.

@11- Though I should add that perhaps his ability to parse long Twitter screeds indicates a bit of the 2nd.

One tweet response needed: Shoulda run Bernie.

Sounds like you should have known better, Dan.

I quit after the "there's a message coming out of the right" self-victimization straw man.

Nobody said you weren't real Americans. They just said that the liberal intelligentsia can be elitist assholes who don't listen to anything the non-academic population is trying to say.

/I said with an self-rightous and elitist assholish tone

@16: People looking for excuses to be racist find excuses to be racist.

So wait, are the rest of these 'Red State peeps'/"Real Americans" even on Twitter? Are they ever going to see this?

Somehow I doubt this message will get very far, and mostly not into the hands/eyes/brains of the people this Psych prof is desiring to talk to.

@20 judging by the Abundance of Pepe avatars and people that added 'deplorable' to their handle they are on twitter. Whether they ever see it is debatable, my guess would be no.

Probably time for The Stranger to give up on blog comments, too.

@19: So you are racist-fee, are you also gluten-free?

@21 If I'm pissing you off, I know I'm doing something right.

I don't want to debate the viability or utility of Twitter right now, but I do want to ask, has anyone Storified the thread in question?

Gawd, you all sux. From the old man p!ssing over twitter to Bernie nagging, it's no wonder we are where we are.

I agree with psych prof. I am an educated liberal elite who grew up in rural America. I am sick of being told I don't count or don't understand real America when "I" was in the majority.

Did she submit her PhD clause-by-clause in a thousand Twitter feeds?

Anyway, the fact that she says she'll be paying back her student loans for the rest of her life and "that's okay" --- THAT'S the problem. Carrying that kind of debt for a lifetime should not be normal. "Real America" can't even afford college, let alone a PhD, and that's what creates the resentment. If she thinks it's okay to have that amount of debt -- and that most young Americans have the ability to even qualify for it -- shows some degree of being out of touch.

I guess I'm the only one that liked this woman's Twitterstorm? (Tweetstorm? Tweet avalanche?) I thought it was good. Academics are just citizens like everybody else, and they're not all coddled, condescending douchebags - in fact, most aren't. The fact that most academics are anti-Trump has more to do with their being informed citizens than some kind of abstract sociological force.

And yes, Twitter is a bad medium for long-form expression. But I think the reason she put that out there is that she wanted it to be read, and - like it or not - PEOPLE READ TWITTER. 'Tain't that complicated.

Xian-Qi @28 - "If she thinks it's okay to have that amount of debt -- and that most young Americans have the ability to even qualify for it -- shows some degree of being out of touch."

But that's not what she said. She was saying that she will be paying off her debt until she dies, but it's okay *for her* because it enabled her to get an education so she could follow the career of her choice. Nowhere did she imply that everyone should do the same, or even that it was normal.

I'm with Lance_Thrustwell @29. I generally don't read Tweetstorms like this because I prefer blog posts (and I freely admit that I skimmed most of this and outright skipped other parts), but her point is solid, and I understand why she chose this medium, even if I personally don't like it. A lot of people are very suspicious of education. I remember when Obama first ran for president, people scoffed at him for being "elitist" and uppity with his Ivy League education and experience as a Constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago. I couldn't help wondering why they thought having a highly-educated president was a bad thing, especially since George W. Bush's Yale education was touted as a good thing just eight years before.

More recently, when Donald Trump visited a local university in my area while campaigning, over 100 faculty and staff signed a petition saying they didn't want a racist, sexist person who exemplified dishonesty and hate to be given a platform on campus. People ridiculed them for being out-of-touch academics who live in ivory towers, away from the "real" people, and for being too stupid and elitist to recognize a great person when they see one. There's a huge perception in the US that university faculties don't understand the "real world" because they shut themselves away and take refuge in theories and artsy-farty stuff and keep their heads in the clouds. It wasn't that long ago that "absent-minded professor" was a stereotype, after all. In contrast, working with your hands supposedly keeps you "grounded" and "honest." (sidenote: tell that to the two auto mechanic shops, one of which was in a small Midwestern town that supposedly upheld "American values," who relentlessly tried to upsell unnecessary car parts to me)

I also can't count the number of times I've seen people ranting about "liberal universities brainwashing our children and pushing the liberal agenda and pussifying America" during the election season. Look at how universities are now reviled as places where kids are coddled with safe spaces and coloring books and puppies, regardless of whether they indulge in these or not.

It's the same social divide as anything else in this country, really - political, gender, religious, etc. People pick a side and forget that the people on the other side are humans just like them, who they'd probably get along with quite well if they met at a party, and that they probably have more in common with than differences.