Thread by @segalink

Twitter is a wonderful place. If you are not rooted with deep conviction every wave will toss you around. Some wake up daily to find the agenda for the day by some paying mob. Others seek what they can say that will catch fire & to some it’s an attention seeking game.

Twitter is a wonderful place. There are folks roaming with a gaping hole where their hearts used to be, seeking someone, anyone for that matter, who may be too full of glee to attack and blame for their own emptiness/unfruitfulness and unhappiness.

Twitter is a wonderful place. A space where a few, having given up on their dreams believe that you overrate yourself by asserting your conviction as consistently done over a decade unequivocally, even before they could spell correctly.

Twitter is a wonderful place. A place where some gems lay low and speak once in a while but read everything that matters. Beautiful and delicate minds who may not know how to react to a call out or attack by ghouls seeking whose candle to blow out. I see you and appreciate you.

Twitter is a wonderful place indeed, where the wise knows the danger in the dependence, addiction and reliance on validations, accolades and applause is as dangerous as being perturbed by vituperative utterances of mindless rag dolls of local political imperialists.

Twitter is a wonderful place. A world where you must check at the door your qualifications, titles and air of supremacy. Only superior argument delivered with emotional intelligence matter. Anyone with a pulse would discover that not all tweets can be engaged argumentatively.

Twitter is a wonderful place. The most dangerous TLs to waltz into are those deployed as note to self by idealistic tweeps. These are landmines, soliloquies that need not be interrupted unless you have something worthy to contribute. Stagger into such mindlessly & regret follows.

Twitter is a wonderful place. A world within a world where people who are used to engaging you believe you would recognize them in real life as they do you. In truth, idealistic tweeps don’t see themselves as celebrities but reserved ordinary people. #StateOfEnlightenment

Twitter is a wonderful place. A world where there’s an unwritten convention that tends to condition people to live by certain rules. A place where simpletons allude extraordinary powers of control to themselves because of some group belief or ideal. A society of Masked/MarksMen.

Twitter is a Wonderful place. A society of the damned where lost soul use “I am disappointed in you”, “I’ve lost respect for you”, and “I used to respect you but I will have to unfollow” as weapons of control once your resolve threatens their illusions & core belief.

Twitter is a wonderful place. It is advised that you never grow complacent. There are no gods, no overlords, no crowns or anything close to vertical collectivism. If you believe in this that bubble will soon burst. People are laying siege to call you out on your hypocrisy.

Twitter is a wonderful place. It is neither a lecture hall nor a platform where anyone can claim omnipotence. No matter how much you know, the best you can do is lay out your thoughts humbly and allow others contribute. Show respect & your days will be long.

Twitter is a wonderful place. Real world Social stratification has no meaning here. Celebrities & VIPs don’t really talk or engage much because they know Twitter won’t suffer fools. It is an engagement platform that seek to find you out. Social masks will fail here.

Twitter is a wonderful place. It’s funny how people forget that this is not Facebook. We have no family or friends here just parallel or often times similar conversations but different takes. Each timeline tells a story in the continuum. Retweets are relevant takes to each story.

Twitter is a wonderful place. No one really gives a fuck. Brand obsessed folks, Celebrity worshippers, Emotional intelligence bereft careerists, Elitist people, Terrorpreneurs, xenophobic people, Hirelings of political opportunists etc are all snacks here being smacked around.

Twitter is a wonderful place. A dysfunctional society where the proof of intellectual capacity for some is to roam TLs replying to anything above their cognitive capacity with “I disagree” as though they were tagged on the tweets or personally invited to approve the thought.

Twitter is a wonderful place. A society battle ready to deflate the egos of status-seekers, you know the delusional retards who think buying status symbols will make them happier. All they need do is flaunt it and get roasted. Twitter takes no prisoners. 🔥

Twitter is a wonderful place. A society conditioned to believe that blue ticks after your name confers infallibility or class. This can be a shackle that conditions you to respond a certain way to avoid being relegated. People who didn’t promote you can’t demote you. Think.

Twitter is a wonderful place. A constellation of ideas, a congregation of intellectual bandwidths, a market place for culture contact & culture conflict, a slum of despair that gives comfort to the agglomeration of fools, a place of refuge & an idiosyncratic democracy.