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This guy needs to be ratioed on Twitter for those of you with accounts (Original Post)
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CurtEastPoint
(18,668 posts)1. He needs to be what?
ProfessorGAC
(65,251 posts)3. You're Not Alone
I don't know what "ratioed" means, either.
CurtEastPoint
(18,668 posts)4. Google says...
verb (used with object), ra·tioed or ra·tio'd, ra·tio·ing.
(on Twitter) to flood (a tweet or its author) with negative replies such that commenters as a group take control of the momentum and message away from the original poster:
Political pundits trying to write provocative and edgy tweets are going to get ratioed sooner or later.
ProfessorGAC
(65,251 posts)5. Yeah, I Looked It Up, Too
I'm out. I don't believe it accomplishes much & I don't have a Twitter account. So, I'd be of no help, anyway.
CurtEastPoint
(18,668 posts)6. I have one but never use it.
Beakybird
(3,333 posts)2. At a glance, it looks like a mainstream non-opinionated analysis that just happens to be wrong.
His projection was off by 2%. So many analysts and pollsters have been off this cycle, perhaps they should all be humiliated.