Hello! Here's a quick PSA for people following me.
This screenshot shows how many people are following me. Right now it's 40,053. It's been hovering between 40,000 and 40,100 since that "thank ten women" meme went around.
I'm not the biggest account but that's a lot of people.
This screenshot shows how many people are following me. Right now it's 40,053. It's been hovering between 40,000 and 40,100 since that "thank ten women" meme went around.
I'm not the biggest account but that's a lot of people.
There's a theory that the human brain can only conceptualize relationships with a finite number of people. Nobody has a concrete answer for what that number is, but it's thought to be around 150 - which is quite a bit less than 40,000.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27…
Before I had 40,000 followers, before I even had 1,000 followers, my threads and tweets had a tendency to blow up and flood my app with notifications. The bigger my audience, the more that happens. My phone crashes if I don't have my filter set like this:
Muting notifications doesn't mean I can't see your replies if I click on a tweet, it only means that it doesn't show up when I go to the notifications page. The only interactions and replies I see there are people I follow.
I'm pointing all this out because every once in a while I click on one of my tweets to read the replies and I see someone I don't know lamenting that I muted them. What makes them think that? I guess they reply to my tweets and I never talk back.
People... Twitter is not a general communication channel for talking to a specific person you don't know. I don't know how else to say it. You can try it. You can shout into the canyon but you can't control who hears it.
Anybody who has followers in the five digits and really active notifications, even if they don't have their filters turned up like I do, they aren't going to see everything. Twitter can't handle that many notifications. The human brain can't, either. And there's just not time.
The big accounts who won't reply back aren't stuck up. They just literally can't spend all day answering random tweets. Why do some people get replies and not you? Luck. It comes down to whose reply did they happen to see, read, and have a reply to.
As far as I'm concerned, grumbling about being muted (and taking the time to type out how you're not grumbling about it counts) on an unrelated tweet is extremely passive-aggressive and basically terrible social media behavior. If you weren't muted before, you might be blocked
In summation, can everybody just chill? Sometimes you don't get a reply because I don't have a reply for you. I am not a reaction machine. I am not any kind of a machine. I am a person who has 40,000 people following her and millions of people seeing her words.
Evolutionarily speaking... this wasn't supposed to happen. Nothing in billions of years of evolutionary history has prepared any of us for the ability to address an audience of hundreds of thousands to millions, much less have them talk back.
LOL, and turns out my latest grumbler was a Stop White Genocide Guy who felt aggrieved that I had stopped debating him.
Blocked.
Blocked.
