When Old Tweets Bite You in the Ass - HARD

Didn't he play Batman?

 

I'll admit, I got frigging lost between fansided, barstool, who tweeted what, and what was objectifying.

 

So there are no winners in that fight?

 

As apologies go, this is a pretty good one.

 

They're both getting a lot more attention than they would otherwise, if that counts as winning.

 

God, that's awesome, though.

I still hate Barstool with a white-hot passion and hope they get run out of ESPN in the most humiliating manner possible. But I do love people getting destroyed by their own words like that.

Also so fucking glad I never got on Twitter.

 

I think he's a Pig.

 

Good Heavens, he got destroyed.

 

Pretty good, but it's missing a sentence:

"And while I don't condone what Barstool Sports does, I have to admit I once did it, too, and need to be forthcoming about my own weaknesses when publicly calling out the weaknesses of others. And since calling out Barstool Sports on Twitter is not a novel, risky thing to do, I have to admit I did it for the sake of my own ego, which only proves I still have a long ways to go as a person."

 

So, I've come to realize (and I concede that it's a NO SHIT realization, so you don't have to point that out) that Twitter can literally only do me harm in my job. I understand why some people need it for theirs, how it helps increase their profile, etc., but the only thing it can do for me is weaponize me in stupid moments. I have gotten a little buzzed on bourbon before and been scrolling through Twitter and fired back at someone, and while I'm not putting anyone's life in danger, in terms of my future, it's about as dangerous as driving while buzzed. I've never tweeted anything like Best did, or like Barstool tweets, but sometimes I'll want to pitch a feature on someone, and I'll go back and realize I tweeted something stupid about them four years ago. "LOL, that Matt Stafford throw is garbage, and so is he!" (I made that up, but I'm sure I've tweeted shit about Stafford like that.) Now let's say I want to go to the Lions and ask them about getting time with Stafford for a feature and they're like "Yeah, we're already aware that you think he sucks from your tweets. We're going to pass."

Twitter is responsible for an enormous amount of bad in journalism. And the dirty secret is, it drives so000000 little traffic, it's almost irrelevant. All it really is is an ego stroke, or something that increases your "profile" for other people in journalism. Maybe some people are exposed to your work and otherwise wouldn't be through Twitter and that's great. Maybe you do get hired because of your cheeky quips. But all it can do for me at this point is get me in trouble. I'm not changing anyone's mind, I'm not getting a better job, I'm not making any more friends, really. I wish I could get off the thing, but it's like quitting cigarettes. Trying to wean my way off it. Recently downloaded my whole Twitter archive and scanned through it to see if I needed to delete anything. Nothing bad, as I'm not an asshole, but still, plenty of stuff I'd never tweet now.