Thread by @NaomiKritzer

This is a good thread!

https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1313150299725586439

And here is the thread that was her LRT:

https://twitter.com/ellle_em/status/1313146631055978496

One of the weird frustrations of Twitter is what a radically different experience it becomes as your follower count rises.

If you have 500 followers and one of your tweets gets 100-ish RT's and as a result you get a stranger in your mentions giving you a long, complicated overshare, that can feel like a real moment of connection.

If you have 50,000 followers and have strangers oversharing in your comments every day, you're more likely to find yourself thinking about that person who wrote a budget that included some large sum so she could hand strangers $500 and say "get some therapy."

Anyway, it just gets increasingly hard to manage weird replies as your follower count goes up. Mine are still manageable but there are definitely days when it's on the cusp, and I don't feel at all obligated to respond to everything in my mentions.

I really enjoy chatting with friends and strangers but I try to be conscientious about how many replies in a row I put into someone's mentions.

If I want to tell a twenty-tweet story I try to pull it out for a QT and tell the story to my OWN followers who presumably SIGNED UP for my bullshit.

I also just want to note that at some point people hit a level of followers where they just no longer read more than a tiny selection of replies. If you overshare in Taylor Swift's mentions you're doing it for her other fans, I think.

And one of the weird dynamics on Twitter is when people treat you like you're in that category just because you have a blue check, which ... there are people with 4,000 or so followers and a blue check.

But in fact there are people with a LOT of followers who are still reading most of the replies they get and having conversations with the ones who seem friendly. Which again, is part of what makes Twitter fun! But also fraught.