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I don& #39;t want to get anyone fired during a pandemic, but when one lawyer chilling in his apartment can make the biggest paper in the world delete 5 tweets a day because of dumb typos and grammatical errors, shouldn& #39;t that paper hire a less crappy social media team?
More examples from the last couple days:
These are a couple of favorites:
Here& #39;s a thought: what if the Times hired back some of the dozens of copy-editors it laid off, people who are actually literate, and asked them to write tweets?
Here& #39;s another good tweet I got deleted in the last couple days:
And another one:
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Part 1 billion:
And another one:
I guess these Times social-media gurus really think I know what I& #39;m talking about:
And another one:
Actually I do want to get them fired:
Maybe the Times can buy The Dodo and send all the literally illiterate people who currently tweet for the Times to tweet wordless emoji tweets to cat videos instead.
And another one (they posted a tweet about the Lancet retracting its study, linking to last week& #39;s article about people questioning the study, because they can& #39;t read).
And another one:
Wow, maybe someone on the world& #39;s densest social media team does know what an appositive modifier is:
I basically am the Times& #39;s copy desk now:
No really, I am the Times& #39;s copy desk now:
And another one:
I& #39;m really fond of my pinned tweet, but I& #39;m pinning this thread to increase awareness of the Times social media team& #39;s functional illiteracy.
Oh look, another Times tweet I got deleted:
Two tweets deleted in the last hour:
Three tweets deleted in the last hour, the third of which was a garbled correction of the second:
Read the Times& #39;s tweets first here:
If you follow me, you can read what the Times will tweet before they tweet it because I rewrite their tweets for them:
In which I get another Times tweet deleted:
Read the Times& #39;s tweets an hour before they post them here:
