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London civil servant's bus odyssey sparks Twitter storm

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Re: London civil servant's bus odyssey sparks Twitter storm

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Thats a terribly named, click-baity title (though the post itself is good, and already discussed on HN) Why click-baity? The word "Twitter storm" gives the impression people are getting angry and offended (which is what we usually see on Twitter, which is why I quit 5-6 years ago and never miss it). But the "storm" in this case is people enjoying his article, which is not what I got from the title.

Not only that, the 1st paragrapph also mentions:

> But he ended up sparking a Twitter storm, causing a debate about how to build a fairer country along the way.

And yet the article never mentions any of those tweets or even summarises them. It literally just recounts his tweets with his photos.

Re: London civil servant's bus odyssey sparks Twitter storm

#12
post #5

HN Comments from the original thread yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28262194 And if you want to read the original Twitter thread, try this as it avoids the auth-wall and also covers his story to it's completion: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428438081871433731.html

I was going through the thread reader page and thought "What an interesting blog post, it's very multimedia with lots of pics and clips of 10 second videos". I then realized it was a scraping of all his Twitter posts, but damn, that presentation was so much better than the @#!^@!! that is Twitter.

Completely agree. This would make for a good travel blog format / page template.
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