Why I quit Twitter —
and you should, too
by
John Podhoretz
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
12/27/2019 4:37:43 AM
So I haven’t posted a tweet in nine months. How am I doing? I’m still in recovery. Over the previous 10 years, I had written 180,000 tweets. Yes, I said 180,000. That’s 18,000 a year, 1,500 a month.
I was putting out an average of 50 tweets a day — while holding down a full-time job editing a magazine, with two firm writing deadlines every week, and raising three children with a wife who works full-time.
How was that even possible? Well, I’ve always written fast. And for much of my life, I’ve felt like a frustrated would-be stand-up comic.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
NotaBene 12/27/2019 4:49:42 AM (No. 272006)
John Podhoretz is such a NeverTrumper that he gave the National Review pamphlet Against Trump a worse name, if that is possible. Traitor.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PChristopher 12/27/2019 4:52:59 AM (No. 272008)
I don't do Twitter and never will. When I'm exposed to it, it only raises my blood pressure and I'm tired of some writers using tweets as the bulk of their articles as if it was actual composition.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 12/27/2019 4:55:02 AM (No. 272010)
Thanks for the advice, now let me give you some: Why I never joined Twitter or Facebook or any other stupid social media and why you should not have, either. Never! Ever!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NotaBene 12/27/2019 5:01:53 AM (No. 272012)
I follow Donald Trump’s tweets daily because it is the way our champion has of answering enemies like Podhoretz and Pelosi. If you just search Duck Duck go they all appear even if you are not a member of Twitter.
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Not interested in anything Podhoretz has to say.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/27/2019 5:51:35 AM (No. 272028)
Why I quit reading Podhoretz--and you should, too.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
CecilStrange 12/27/2019 5:54:59 AM (No. 272031)
So...the Devil made him do it?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
franq 12/27/2019 6:51:01 AM (No. 272046)
Love it, #3. Facebook and Twitter suck more life out of people than they will ever know.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NancyD 12/27/2019 7:08:42 AM (No. 272060)
I concur #3 #9, I think Facebook has harmed many people and I think Twitter is a megaphone for people who think others care what they say ala celebs, media types, etc... My husband and kids have twitter just to receive Trumps tweets, that my sons call "beauty moves" because it causes libs to freak out, Ha!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
worried 12/27/2019 7:32:12 AM (No. 272077)
One advantage is it gives the President direct access to the people, without the media being able to filter or change his statements. Other than that....?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MSUDoc 12/27/2019 7:37:02 AM (No. 272082)
The world is already a mean enough place without wasting the limited hours God has given us in this life in a toxic place like Twitter.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
janjan 12/27/2019 7:47:31 AM (No. 272091)
I don’t use Twitter but if I did I would not quit because Podhoretz got addicted to it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 12/27/2019 8:12:32 AM (No. 272108)
No social media in this household. Never has been and never will. It started out as a novelty and has become increasingly dangerous. We prefer to live private lives.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 12/27/2019 8:43:33 AM (No. 272132)
It’s called “getting a life!”
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The only reason I would join twitter is to follow POTUS and some other conservatives, and to have fun prodding and trolling all the brain-dead leftoids who use it as a ranting platform. That could be fun. POTUS sure seems to enjoy doing it.
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Here's the truth: Podhoretz wasn't very good at it. He tweeted like a snarky 13 year old (hey, you say, that's almost all of Twitter anyway) but he was definitely a practitioner of quantity over quality. He's a well-known columnist who, like Schrodinger's cat, couldn't be in two places at once. Any time he covered a debate, a convention speech or a political event he was tweeting like mad. But if he was tweeting how was he taking notes, formulating a column or engaging in any thought at all?
Whatever his credentials as a columnist who knows his own mind, Podhoretz revealed himself to be a card-carrying member of Groupthink, Inc. All government is all good all of the time to Podhoretz and others like him, especially the NYC crowd who can't imagine a world without constant surveillance and interference from bureaucrats. His tweets were indistinguishable from, say, Hillary Clinton's or Jennifer Rubin's in their disdain for heartland citizens and voters.
Even in this confessional he can't help bigging himself up. A comic? He's as funny as cirrhosis.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/27/2019 8:57:25 AM (No. 272147)
FTA - "...and it encourages us to misunderstand each other. It's the devil on our shoulder."
I have never done Twitter. Jeeze. 50 tweets a day wrapped around Podhoretz' typical day. It was an addiction. Good that he is starting to dry out though.
For that matter, I have never been a Facebooker. While I can see the convenience of posting one-sentence comments, it leaves too much room for misunderstanding.
And then there is email. Lots of email. One of the most ineffective forms of communication there is. At the office before I retired, we all realized we were high-paid keyboard jockeys.
I prefer voice communication where speaking, expression of feelings, and effective listening all go hand in hand. Video calling, when possible, gets me there.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LadyHen 12/27/2019 9:05:10 AM (No. 272162)
Twitter and Facebook are poison. Many of us out here in Fly Over Country figured that out long ago.
fta: "and raising three children with a wife who works full-time. How was that even possible? "
In your socioeconomic class and social sphere, nannies and private schools I would assume. The rest of us, you know the deplorables, have to make other choices, like raising our own kids and making financial sacrifices to do so. Thanks to the Trump ecomomy, which you Traitor John would never have allowed to happen, that job has gotten easier.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DARling 12/27/2019 9:08:19 AM (No. 272171)
Posting your every thought in real time? What could go wrong?
I will never open a Twitter account.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/27/2019 9:33:05 AM (No. 272210)
Nearly 10 years ago, it was learned that employers had begun to look into the social media habits of potential employees. We warned our college age kids, but they couldn't quit the habit. Eventually, employers had to hire people to snoop Twitter, FaceBook and the like. Well, at least those folks got jobs in a down market.
If Brother John thinks he will advocate that Trump stop tweeting, I will TP Podhoretz's house! Tweeting helps President Trump stay connected in a personal way to those who elected him. #NeverTrumpers can B. M. A.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 12/27/2019 9:59:21 AM (No. 272250)
Hmmm - - is Johnnie still a NeverTrumper? Good question.
Let me see if I can find a hint in what he wrote. How about this line - - "I quit Twitter because I hate Trump."
Yes - - yes - - I think he's still a NeverTrumper.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Luckyx3 12/27/2019 10:31:33 AM (No. 272289)
you don't need twitter to read POTUS tweets because every tv outlet posts them daily
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Grounded 12/27/2019 11:22:01 AM (No. 272338)
There's an old expression: You can't unring the bell. So it goes with social media offerings. Once you put it out there, it will follow you for the rest of your days, usually to your detriment.
Social media provides a stage from which the low self esteem crowd can shout, "Hey, look at me! I AM relevant! I AM somebody!"
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Smart11344 12/27/2019 12:46:27 PM (No. 272395)
I've not and will not use Twitter or any other social sites. I email my friends.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
CaktusJakk 12/27/2019 3:01:09 PM (No. 272489)
John Podhoretz has set no examples I would follow.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
NYbob 12/27/2019 3:05:52 PM (No. 272491)
Only an elite fool like Podhoretz would froth at the mouth to the point of insanity and think anyone cares. Only a NYC rag like the Post would pay him to describe to the world why he is nuts. How about this? You publish a newspaper and you pay writers to write articles that have some actual wisdom, humor or truth in them. STOP paying entitled punks who think they are a lot smarter than they are, to whine about who their corrupt class hates.
Twitter is a sewer filled with brainwashed, hateful, morons who regurgitate what they see on lying sites like Slate. All of them part of a mob run by demented dwarfs like Bloomers and soros. The only value of Twitter is that it provides a way for President Trump to post the headline of the day and like a cat chasing a dot of light the rest of the media talk about subjects the President thinks need attention. He knows them better than they know themselves.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
poliposter 12/27/2019 4:24:54 PM (No. 272536)
LOL #15, you suggest on Lucianne.com that no social media is permitted in your house. This is social media, too.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
TXLakeRat 12/27/2019 9:21:38 PM (No. 272687)
Well what a strange web we have weaved, no?
Used to be the we here on Lucianne monitored one another well enough that one would be denounced for commenting without actually reading the article. Now, as the soon to be 30th poster, I only can detect that one poster (#19) actually read the article.
Yet you all denigrate "social media" this is "social media" as at least one of you point out, so stop being so self righteous, please.
For my money, this was a very strong article, and well worth the read.
Yeah, maybe John is still a never Trumper (I think not) but if he is, he's not nearly as stuck in that mode as Lucianne's boy Jonah. IMHO, John has come much further than Jonah.
In any event, I encourage the other 28 of you to READ THE ARTICLE.
(Farewell, y'all, I'm about to be banned again!)
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
TXLakeRat 12/27/2019 9:40:34 PM (No. 272697)
And, back before the 1st ban, my post would have been closer to the 300th post by this time, not the 30th, not the 100th, not the 200th; this used to be a wonderful site for interchange. So many friends found, so many friends since lost (due to the passage of time, not to to the "sensors" here.)
I'd love for someone to become the new Lucianne.com much like we're searching for a new DrudgeReport
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
TXLakeRat 12/27/2019 9:47:45 PM (No. 272700)
(For those of you that don't know... Ms. Lucianne gave life to Matt Drudge (not literally, but...) Were it not for Ms. Lucianne referring Monica's blue dress stain to Matt, there would be no DrudgeReport.)
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