Thread by @pbump

I just replied to someone and apparently it showed up in everyone's feed? Is that accurate? If so, that appears to be a new function — and it's a bad one.

It's easy for people with lots of followers to weaponize that by raising Twitter debates to their followers' attention. Often this can be an intentional move by a bad actor: A quote tweet that effectively serves as a "go get 'im." Why I try to be judicious about quote tweets.

Can also have that effect unintentionally, as it just did. Many people who follow me probably agree with my thinking on things, and naturally show that agreement.

So I'm deleting that tweet and, I guess, being even more wary of replying over the short term.