talking about twitter as dead is rhetorical drivel - as awareness increases across the platform, people become more alert to the nuances, intricacies, and dangers of our social protocols. talking about awareness as death is one of the digital rhetorical pitfalls of the last decade - and causes real physical endangerment to be dismissed because people cease to believe in real harm or illness. it's the source of the debate about the real dangers of the actual sars-covid-2 pathogen and actual physical deaths: ideological camps created chaos narratives to promote agendas which manipulated belief about real disease. i still know people - intelligent ones - who discuss all illness now in terms of it not being real. it's frightening - and it's a foretelling for the next wave of chronic illness in which many will hide real illness or ignore it or deny others are ill for control.