Twitter Roller Coaster (This Time Re: #SB1, #HB2) – Part 2

July 10, 2013

@AurorasBlog tweet on SB1 - I'm moving to a state that doesn't kill its inmates. That's how pro-life it is.
A live tweet from the #SB1 hearings (more on this in tomorrow’s post).

Picking up from yesterday

So, my friend is talking me down a little. He told me that anyone who read the thread – and especially anyone who read my timeline would clearly know how I felt about the issue.

He said the sarcasm was clear in the sarcastic tweet, and I had to just let it all go.

And he was right.

Twitter is very fast. And you only get 140 characters. So, it’s possible that people were just kind of replying quickly. Then, since you’re in the box automatically when people hit reply, your handle maybe doesn’t got in the exact right and clear spot of the tweet.

One thing I thought was a bit ironic was that I know a lot of us chuckle at jokes such as “Ok, from now on, abortions and gay weddings will take place only in libraries, where their opponents are sure to never be affected by them.” – @johnfreiler

Hahaha. We’re all so much more educated and well-read than conservatives. (Not like I have any room to laugh, considering I am not a college graduate…)

But what I found so funny was we’re always making these jokes about how liberals are the ones who read and understand things. Yet, I found a couple of tweets deriding me and this other woman (as though we were both against women’s rights). So, these people on my side were almost certainly not reading up in the twitter conversation, or looking for any context.

@johnfreiler's joke tweet about gay marriages and abortions in librariesWhereas, I certainly found myself in the correct position in the hate tweets I was getting. No one supporting the restrictions on women’s healthcare accidentally put me in on that side. So, they were the ones reading and understanding the conversation…

Anyway, it began to all die down because things only last for an instance on twitter anyway.

And before I knew it, my former boss (who is still above me, but happens to work on a different show right now, therefore is not my current immediate boss (as if any of you really care about the minutiae of the hierarchy at work)), bursts into my editing bay, saying she was angry that some people were attacking me on twitter, and she was already tweeting people back, standing up for me, and asking for civility.

I loved that I was in my own little twitter world and a real human being burst into it in real time.

Soon enough, it all blew over and I think basically everything is fine. But, that was my little twitter scare for the night.

Aside from that, there were a couple other stressful things on twitter (typos I made – agh, typos!) that I’ll finish up with tomorrow.

I'd love to hear from you! So whaddya say?