What is going on here?

And check the replies to this:

Yeah, fuck those guys, and their sincere desire to help poor people get healthcare, a pay raise, and have access to higher education.

— Zooey is okay with a general strike (@zooeyd1) August 15, 2022

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Zooey.

Enh. Never mind.

The guy is just a troll. The acct has 15 followers, and follows 3 accts. I’m gonna guess those 15 followers are his other troll accounts.

It was just momentarily disconcerting to have a guy screenshotting pretty old tweets and trying to frame me negatively. You know…like…why?

But when I recognized it was just a troll, it all became clear.

But a block just means he can’t see my tweets, right? It doesn’t delete his tweets, or prevent other people from seeing them.

I don’t know.  I’m still unclear on all the twitter functions.

Anyway, after a bit, I realized his original target was someone else, and then he turned on me when she blocked him, and nobody else was involved. So it was just the two of us off in a remote corner of the internet, and he had no purpose other than to try to agitate me, so I just let it die on the vine.

Weird experience, though. The whole 4K “Likes” and all the Retweets was weird, too. It just destroys Notifications like a dump truck unloading pea gravel in your account. It drowned out everything, and I lost track of a couple of those bite-size interactions which is what I’m used to. Those interactions were hopelessly lost.

I now know why big accounts never respond to comments on their tweets. It’s practically impossible.

zn wrote:

You control what you can control. If you block him he can’t respond to you so as far as the rest of twitter is concerned, there’s nothing to see from him that would involve you. Don’t overthink it. Just block people that pester you. Block and done. Not blocking them gets taken as an invitation to pester you more. I don’t even remember who it is I have blocked. I just blocked them, and voila, no more problems.

Okay. I’ve never blocked anyone because it’s always been somebody who is just being rude, and it’s been confined to tweets that fewer than 100 people even saw.

This guy was going for the jugular in a personal way in a tweet that drew 80,000 viewers. He was trying intimidate me into blocking him. That was his goal. He even said so.

But it was in the sunset of the tweet’s life, and when I quit responding, he gave up.