Thread by @ekownyankah

I have hit 5k twitter followers! Minuscule in twitter but flattering that 5k people trust me with seconds of their day while they are desperately avoiding work...

This is clearly a time to...

BROOD.

How to gin up these numbers?

It is clearly time for a twitter beef!

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What I need is to pick a largely artificial fight w/ intriguing personal overlays.

Someone with a larger twitter reach but not so large that I cannot imagine reaching it. Someone I respect... even like... But can fabricate a deep tension.

Frenemies make great reading!

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So I am announcing here today... A vendetta. I am declaring a blood feud...

Against...

@AdHaque110!

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That's right... @AdHaque110!

Oh sure, you all think he is a brilliant international war scholar and lovely person...But I have some news for you!

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1. He once, at some conference or other, made searing comments on my paper, savaging arguments and generally engaging in a way that made my work better. Afterwards, he flashed me one of his thousand megawatt smiles.

It is well known such treatment requires TWO such smiles.

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2. He has refused to bring his delightful daughter over for a playdate for over a year, citing the excuse of "an international pandemic." Sheesh.

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So it's on @AdHaque110. You and I. Twitter beef.

@RutgersLaw, stay out of this. You don't want any of this smoke.

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To be sure, my artificial anger and bitterness (WHICH REQUIRES ALL OF YOUR FOLLOWERS TO FOLLOW ME) is expansive.

I am taking applicants for this twitter beef.

@AliceDreger, @DrCarolHay, Watch yourselves.

Any one else want some?

https://twitter.com/arothmanhistory/status/1396965753807589380?s=20

@arothmanhistory and @tlecaque also noticed the impending twitter beefs this fall will bring.

I am using that to my advantage...It's a death match for all the follows. You two... you've been warned.

@KevinMKruse, when I get big enough, I'm coming...

@ConLawWarrior Don't think I'm not keeping an eye on you and your followers too...