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Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank
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If you want respect on Twitter, you have to earn it. If you lead with arrogant belligerence before you've shown that you have something interesting to add, you're not getting there.
I never assume people should respect me or know who I am, if I'm meeting them the first time. You walk into a new courtroom, you win respect by "show me." Back up your arguments. Be trustworthy. Let your work speak for itself.
Like the early days of blogging, Twitter moved pretty fast away from the camaraderie of sharing a new medium, but only since 2015-ish has it really descended to the flash mob mentality where we judge everything by how many braying jackals each side can summon.
At a certain point, that ceases to be argument at all, in the sense of a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition. And it certainly ceases to command respect or persuade the unconverted to anything.
Which raises the question of what you are doing here at all. But if you're a small time Tweeter, not already famous, & start out in that style, the odds against you ever getting anywhere are long. You're bringing nothing to the table. You're cannon fodder, and will end that way.
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