Why You Should Never Apologise On Twitter
Apologise, But Never on Twitter
I should post the 10 rules of Twitter someday. Whenever that day comes, one rule you can bet your entire dollar on is this one; never ever apologise on Twitter. Whatever you tweeted, no matter the state or context, whether a casual tweet that was twisted for an agenda or an outrightly bad tweet that even you genuinely realise was in bad taste, move on. Never apologise on twitter. You can post a direct apology to whoever you offended. If you openly offended someone on Twitter, it is okay to openly apologise to them directly. This is a clear case of making your apology as loud as the offence. The essence of this apology is clear enough, this is for the offended individual.
Any form of apology meant for a crowd must be posted elsewhere; Instagram, Medium, Whatsapp, MySpace, Hi5, wherever. But never on Twitter. You’d be wasting your time at best and making a joke of yourself at worst.
Whenever a certain crowd want to come at me, they post my tweets from 9, 11, 12 years ago. It does not matter that the same tweets have subsequent tweets posted as apologies in their place. It does not matter that the tweets in question — e.g. saying I’d rather vote a pig than vote someone as president — have since been deleted. Tweets posted when majority of those throwing them up with phlegm in their nose and kelebe in their mouth were not even on Twitter. I imagine spit all over their faces as they come for you. Lol.
If you ever posted a tweet you need to apologise for, delete the tweet. Apologise elsewhere. Never apologise on Twitter. The crowd there don’t care for your apology, they care for their own demonstrations of self-righteousness. The Virtuous Olympics. They care for the joy of seeing someone in some perceived pain, because truly, many people are going through things — God help them — and they are just happy to see, no matter how fleeting, that there is one more person on their side of pain, especially if someone they love to hate. Don’t play their sport. Be contrite, but never apologise on Twitter. Except you are into these sort of Olympics yourself.
