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A reply guy on a viral airport thread said my breakdown was "just vibes," so I started adding receipts
I used to post breakdowns of bad takes with a lot of "this is obviously wrong" and no links, and someone named Dave replied under my post about that viral "airports should ban wheeled luggage" tweet saying my take was all vibes and zero facts. He was right, so now I screenshot the original tweet, circle the specific claim, and paste a link showing why it falls apart. It takes me about 20 extra minutes per post but the replies actually talk about the take now instead of yelling at me. How do you all keep track of your sources when a bad take has like 5 wrong claims packed into one post?
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brookeellis10d ago
I keep a running note on my phone for this. When a post has like 5 claims, I copy the tweet text into the note and break it into a numbered list, one claim per line, then under each line I drop the link and the exact quote from the source that kills it. Last week a post about airport security lines had four claims and three of them fell apart with one TSA page, so I just linked that once and noted which lines it covered. The numbered list is the part that saves me, because when I sit down to write the reply I just work down the list instead of hunting for stuff again. It feels slow the first few times but now I can pull a reply together in way less time and I never lose a source.
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