#discourse

A swarm of users piling on one account in coordinated replies and quote-tweets.

Harassment dressed as polite curiosity: relentless demands for proof, sources and debate.

One-sided emotional bond a fan forms with a celeb who has no idea they exist.

A blunt, high-impact assertion dropped like ordnance.

Read The F***ing Article — reply to commenters who clearly didn't.

An opinion so bad it's a loss the moment it's posted.

Posting bait engineered purely to harvest replies, quotes and rage-clicks.

Mocking someone's bad post via quote-tweet, usually for laughs and clout.

A short, deliberately provocative opinion fired off for reaction.

Whichever poor soul Twitter has collectively decided to dunk on for the next 18 hours.

Change My View — a post inviting people to argue you out of your opinion.

An echo chamber where everyone loudly agrees and dogpiles anyone who doesn't.

Content designed to enrage you into responding, which is the whole point.

A hot take with extra hot sauce — flagged in advance as controversial.

Sarcastic praise for a take so contrarian it loops back around to stupid.

Reply with a screenshot of someone's old contradictory post to expose them.