Twitter C/D

i thought her coverage of the snowden trial was very good but it seems she might be... bad

Tweetbot just updated over to the new corporate-mandated "heart" and I'm so disappointed.

im assuming sarah koenig got swarthvillian banned too someone needs to write a more thorough explainer

― lag∞n, Friday, January 29, 2016 4:53 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no wait thats the serial person lol sarah jeong

― lag∞n, Friday, January 29, 2016 4:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa lmao

a friend of mine who used to be as deeply invested in these twitter beefs as i am now has been trying to remind me: "these people arguing so loudly with each and dividing into factions? don't matter to anyone but themselves. i can virtually guarantee you nobody caucusing monday knows what the fuck a bernie bro is"

omg stop laughing at me and help me understand this inconsequential gossip between likely totally awful ppl on both sides

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ2u2a1UAAAt1A7.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ2u2nbUEAE7kU_.png

calling in the calvary on ppl joking abt u calling in the calvary

have totally not figured out how this relates to berniebros or who the berniebros are

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ2iJ9WUcAIH__Q.jpghttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ2iJ8gUsAEc7qE.jpg

are the berniebros from reddit if so how did ppl who also think reddit is bad end up getting banned

ugh just read that henwood thing and it just reanimated my distaste for Sarah K

deliberate mischaracterizations as a brand building strategy: since at least 2014

If Jeong was aiming to get ppl banned she would have a much longer list than a couple of irony bros. No obvious reason it would start with swarthy villain when she was mainly arguing with other people. I'm slightly more inclined to believe the Saudi theory.

Trill pikachu was actively trying to get suspended last week.

tbh berniebro >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sanderstormtroopers

If Jeong was aiming to get ppl banned she would have a much longer list than a couple of irony bros.

― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, January 29, 2016 1:14 AM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well those screenshots show her aiming to get bk juggler reported by her followers at least

tho it doesnt seem like anyone is actually saying she got the swvillian banned tbf i was just completely baselessly speculating

i dont get why saudi wld care abt some tweeter tho like dont a million ppl say a million mean things abt them on there every day

cant believe no one is with me on this important citizen journalism

i missed trill trying to get actively banned, what was going on with that?

(worst thing about suspended accounts is you can't see the history so you can't reconstruct wth drama led to it)

i dont get why saudi wld care abt some tweeter tho like dont a million ppl say a million mean things abt them on there every day

This is true but very few people go into detail about the way in which government-aligned PR people use their influence over the western press, which had been an area of his focus for a while. He put up a long (and broadly accurate if not particularly well written) piece about it about a week before he was banned. Given that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has over $1bn worth of stock, i'd imagine his complaints would get picked up more quickly than Sarah Jeong's. Swarthy Villain also spends the bulk of his time deliberately annoying other people in a way that could be interpreted as harrassment so there's more plausible deniability than there would be in taking out a more serious critic. It's still a bit of a stretch though.

i missed trill trying to get actively banned, what was going on with that?

He was trolling a bunch people people and said "lol if i don't get suspended for this, i never will". He self-deleted and comes back all the time, though i don't know how much difference it makes.

dare yuou guyz to read this all

http://sarahjeong.net/2016/01/24/jacobinghazi/

how did this come back up again? isn't this "feud" super old?

cant believe no one is with me on this important citizen journalism

― lag∞n, Friday, January 29, 2016 6:27 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when you saw only one set of footprints it was then that i was livestreaming elsewhere

I do want to apologize for @-ing Megan the first time. Honestly, had I known that Megan was struggling with health issues and grief, I would have kept my snark to myself. And I am painfully sorry that this blogpost discloses her survivor status. If it hadn’t been a central fact in the incident, I would have left it out.

And I’m sorry to Sarah K. I never wanted to dig up the past—because it undoubtedly means she (and Megan as well, honestly) will be harassed all over again.

this is such disingenuous smarmy fucking garbage

I never wanted to dig up the past (blogs abt digging up the past)

she omits her own acidic @ replies to the ongoing conversation at the time to create the impression she just sent a couple of innocent & barely relevant tweets before becoming a victim of the unhinged kilpatricks

I read that and I'm more confused now

so some dude from jacobin disliked an offhand tweet and went from being a little too angry (he was having a bad week) to being the maddest ever?

idk anything about jeong, is she a good writer, what's the score here

never mind, HOOS has filled me in during the xps

the images where she is like "I never said this very specific phrase, check it out" is pretty ridiculous

matt bruenig wrote a post about the whole thing then... deleted it

it came back up because she said something about bernie-bros and ppl clowned her and some people mentioned that so she wrote a huge post on just that and then encouraged everyone to i guess report every account clowning her and i guess meanwhile she claims she's been harassed or something.

https://i.gyazo.com/9a891771a54c4e57c4637d9647f0cb68.png

now lets follow the link to "all the tweets ever sent to kilpatrick"

https://i.gyazo.com/37ae3cc2e4c88471fbf9c9c502e5b598.png

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/22/2e/d4/222ed47af460159db477d05611ccaf1d.jpg

but as far as i can tell this isn't like gater stuff (tho she had a screenshot of one v. nasty tweet from an egg) but just children calling one another names on the internet

this is some sort of metafictional death spiral of tweeting

its almost as if evidence is

being

e r a s e d

I don't think the link to all her tweets will work anymore since her account is private

I spent way too long trying to parse this via that storify

im quitting twitter this is

too much

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:r-wEz6YBklUJ:mattbruenig.com/2016/01/26/jacobinghazi-part-deux/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

I will be on ilx slack today, someone plz join and explain all this to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t0q_GCLUrg

jesus the whole thing is worse than ilx

http://mattbruenig.com/2014/09/23/what-would-it-take-to-make-sarah-kendzior-admit-this-is-not-true/

i'd forgotten about this--doug is a friend of mine and this is utterly fucking vile

I occasionally see a retweet from these ppl, I guess I should block em

also i would like to go on record as really hating the phrase "playing the victim card"

playing cards rhetorically is bad

i really like this paper about playing cards:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2654372

isn't there a third party tweet archiver

its against the tos

this works OK - http://snapbird.org/

ok I'm reading through this: http://imgur.com/a/nUX1A

and I irl loled at the claim that "writers at Salon and Jacobin are emailing rape threats"