.ZeeshanAleem: Dunking on Twitter feels incredibly good. Turns out it could be backfiring.
on what might be driving this trend based on their study of how Twitter users engage with members of Congress. Using huge samples of tweets, they found that right-wing politicians are more likely to be “ratioed.” Ratioing refers to the way an unpopular tweet receives a much higher number of comments, in the form of replies or quote tweets, than direct retweets — basically the phenomenon of users swarming a tweet to deride it rather than endorse it.
Dogpiling is fun, often funny and provides a release of sorts. But it’s often also a low form of discourse: an insult without substantive reasoning.posts that elicit a great deal of comments Slamming a foolish or wrongheaded statement is a big part of online culture. Twitter, with its short, decontextualized and often polemical messages, lends itself to this culture of mass commendation perhaps more than any other major platform. But now we're confronted with the possibility that slamming a bad tweet isn't just sometimes giving it oxygen — it might be attaching it to a hot air balloon.
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