Tory MP Philip Davies says joining Twitter was one of the worst mistakes of his life as ‘all my 16,000 followers hate me’

A piece in The Sun, published two days ago. An excerpt:

“I am not on Facebook, but I am on Twitter. I regard going on Twitter as probably one of the worst things I have ever done in my life.

“I have about 16,000 followers, all of whom hate me.”

Mr Davies added: “It is very interesting to read what they have to say, but it all seems rather pointless.

“They can hurl as much abuse as they like – it does not bother me – but I am not entirely sure that it gets us anywhere.”

The BBC produced a short piece on the matter. An excerpt:

Philip Davies, a critic of political correctness and “zealous” feminism, who campaigns for “men’s rights,” told fellow MPs those who were not on Facebook or Twitter were “the sensible ones”.

I’m convinced journalism students are taught to put text in speech marks when they want to create the impression in readers’ minds, that the text is about something which the reader should be suspicious about. The idea that feminists might be zealots, or men should have rights! Ridiculous.

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4 thoughts on “Tory MP Philip Davies says joining Twitter was one of the worst mistakes of his life as ‘all my 16,000 followers hate me’

  1. Interesting isn’t it that Mr Davies doesn’t feel the need to call the police on any of his “haters” . Perhaps in the interests of equality he should, it seems fair he too should get the police service to deal with his more unhinged “followers” , you know like Jess does.
    Best advice ignore twitter. Just pub talk in “print” and as such worthless.

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  2. Mike Twitter has algorithms that discount positive comments from people on Twitter that are considered “Hate Speech”. Apparently Twitter is doing this to Donald Trump.
    It is mention in a YouTube discussion here at 9:07 along the red line.

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