I’ve been taking extra strength exedrin today, all day. I have this nagging headache. See, I get these headaches when I hear people lying. It’s like a superpower, except that it hurts worse as I hear more stupidity. The “Thinking Moms” decided that they were going to have a “Twitter Party.” Well, they don’t know how twitter works. They thought that creating an
echo chamber of anti-vaccine people repeating the same hashtag
(#CDCwhistleblower) would make said hashtag trend and attract regular
Twitter users to their message of anti-vaccine madness. That’s not how
it works. For something to trend and be featured on Twitter, you need to
have a lot of individual people using that hashtag in their
conversation. A dozen people writing it a thousand times has an impact
factor of 12, whereas twelve-thousand people tweeting it just once has
an impact factor of 12,000...
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