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I deleted my Twitter and became a cunt. Conventional wisdom suggests the opposite should be true. Twitter is a toxic place full of toxic people posting toxically; these people, it’s widely remarked, are cunts: they are mean; they are judgmental; in their words, they are haters. But most people on Twitter are not haters. They neither hate Twitter nor most of the things they claim to hate in their tweets — generally, when you hate something, you don’t do it, but these people do Twitter and much more besides: they watch shows they hate; they listen to music they hate; they talk to people they hate; it’s true they don’t read books they hate, but that’s less because they hate them and more just they don’t read. A few of them do present as writers, and at least based on our working theory of hating, they do actually seem to hate writing because outside of their tweets, they don’t really do it, and if they do, well, love wins: these people are capable of stretching their tweets into articles,

Twitter Twitter Isabel Pabán Freed I deleted my Twitter and became a cunt. Conventional wisdom suggests the opposite should be true. Twitter is a toxic place full of toxic people posting toxically; these people, it’s widely remarked, are cunts: they are mean; they are judgmental; in their words, they are haters. But most people on Twitter are not haters. They neither hate Twitter nor most of the things they claim to hate in their tweets — generally, when you hate something, you don’t do it, but these people do Twitter and much more besides: they watch shows they hate; they listen to music they

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