Culture of Twitter

The culture of social-media platform Twitter includes:

• the use of hashtags to create and perpetuate Twitter/social-media trends
• amplifying messages by retweeting or by responding to them
• bringing attention to certain people/accounts by atting ("@-ing") them using the at sign ("@")
• creating threads to share longer messages, as single tweets have a character limit
• shortening URLs to accommodate character-count limits and to track reach and referrals
• the introduction of jargon, such as:
  • Milkshake Duck, an initially (seemingly) endearing person who turns out to be flawed;
  • problematic fave, a celebrity or other influential person whose popularity is impervious to offensive or statements
  • Meltdown May, a series of erratic social-media posts in the month of May.[1]
• sub-communities such as:
  • Weird Twitter;
  • Black Twitter;
  • Stan Twitter; and
  • diplomatic Twitter
• "getting ratio-ed," wherein a tweet gains more (unsolicited) comments than it does likes and/or retweets, typically indicating the unpopular/controversial nature of that tweet.[2]

See also

• Cancel culture
• Twitter bomb

References

1. Lopatto, Elizabeth. 2020 May 1. "WAS ELON’S TESLA TWITTER MELTDOWN ILLEGAL? AN INVESTIGATION." The Verge.
2. Roth, David. 2017 August 31. "The Ratio Is The Triple Crown Of Bad Tweets." Deadspin. Gawker Media. Retrieved 31 October 2020.