The rest of this week is going to be pretty intense and the election requires a lot of additional energy to manage. It’s worth trying to conserve your mental and physical energy by not staying up too late, limiting your time on this website, and prepping a few meals in advance.” “This week is going to be pretty tough for a lot of people. “Hey, are you still doomscrolling?” reads a typical post. Ho has been a big part of that surge thanks to her nightly reminders on Twitter to step away from your screen. ![]() Though the term has been around since at least 2018, it surged in popularity this March when Americans were stuck inside due to the coronavirus pandemic and desperate for updates on the latest case counts and advisories. There is no rush to be the first to hear the news, and yet today, we are all doomscrollers.ĭoomscrolling, or the masochistic practice of compulsively scouring the internet in search of ever more terrible information, might be our nation’s most popular pastime in the year 2020. It came from possibly the least likely source I could have imagined, a man whose job literally relies on people staring at the internet: Nate Silver, the founder of the statistical analysis website FiveThirtyEight, which has been publishing 2020 election predictions for what feels like 100 years.īut now, Nate Silver was saying what we all know to be true despite everything we’ve tried to glean from poll analyses over the past few months: “You’re not going to learn anything useful about the election outcome on here until 7pm,” he wrote, “when they start counting votes.” Unfortunately, he’s right: Twitter does not have the answers right now because nobody does.ĭid Nate Silver’s tweet make me log off of Twitter? Of course not! Like everyone I know and quite possibly you too, I am spending this day refreshing every social media feed for tiny crumbs of information that will turn out to be mostly useless, despite the fact that when anything actually important happens we will all receive simultaneous alerts on our phones. Phew.It was noon today, November 3, when I got my first warning to log off Twitter. Now that it's fixed, we can all return to the good old days of Twitter - where we were left to read our soul-crushing content in uninterrupted peace. The bug, while it lasted, elicited uniform frustration from anyone (including this author) who encountered it. (opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab)Įven Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey chimed in (Opens in a new tab) to express his relief at the fix. Please update your iOS app to version 8.1.5 when it becomes available for you." "Thanks for your patience while we worked on this. "A fix for the auto-scrolling bug is rolling out now," wrote (Opens in a new tab) whoever is behind the account. According to a tweet from the Twitter Support account, the brief torture of having our precious feed toyed with before our very eyes has come to an end. ![]() For the blissfully unaware, the bug would randomly scroll Twitter feeds - causing people to lose their place while right in the middle of staring into the digital abyss. The social media company announced Tuesday that, after an infuriating few days, it has finally fixed an iOS app bug that was driving its users bonkers. ![]() Twitter wants you to know that it's listening.
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