The Six Plots of Tech Twitter

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There are only six plots on tech Twitter.

All tweets are one of them.

What are they?

— Matty Stratton, charismatic grifter (@mattstratton) January 4, 2021

1. Front-end vs Back-end

2. Degree vs Bootcamp

3. White dude vs Diversity

4. Money vs Passion

5. DevOps is dead. Long live DevRelSecBuzFinSalesMarketingHROps

8. K8s https://t.co/CK5VBqUfCh

— Sasha Rosenbaum (@DivineOps) January 4, 2021

🤔 good question....

1. DNS
2. White asshat complaining about accountability
3. DevRel: closer to sales, marketing, or product?
4. K8s something or other
5. Definition of DevOps, and why it's in a banana stand
6. DNS, of course

— Jeremy has no more covfefe 😷 (@IAmJerdog) January 4, 2021

1. $X service is down
2. $X service is up
3. Someone did something problematic but It's Fine ™️ /s
4. Viral Coping Mechanism Du Jour
5. Clickbait
6. Hot Takes and Other Opinions

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6b. Ads that refuse to be blocked

— Quintessence {🥑/} - 👀 (@QuintessenceAnx) January 4, 2021

ok, ok, my actual answer

1. White dude does white dude stuff and doesn't see what's wrong with it
2. Whatever's on hacker news
3. Passion v. Payout
4. Kubernetes something something something
5. us-east-1 is down
6. Slack is down

— aaron aldrich (@crayzeigh) January 4, 2021

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