Joey Barton

[Alan Harper's Tash]

This is spot on.

Twitter can be really good, if you use it the right way and follow people who are interesting for you.

When I joined it many years ago I did follow a lot of footballers, Barton being one. I didn't stop following him straight away, because if you only follow those with the same views as you, you can end up with an echo chamber that messes with your head in a different way. However, I've recently stopped following him because he doesn't deserve the air. He's just trying to stoke people's anger, to make himself more money. I don't want to be a part of that.

Exactly the same with me and Barton. Unfollowed him after his first rant about pundits. Followed him before to see how he was doing managing League 1/2 teams.

It’s really easy to create what you want from your timeline. The For You one will show you opposing stuff too, so as you say, to stop it being an echo chamber, you can dip into that occasionally.

 

[mexico1970]

He's just trying to stoke people's anger, to make himself more money. I don't want to be a part of that.

You're not posting tweets from him and then following up with "Who hates him the most" posts, some unhealthy mithering going on in here IMO.

 

[BlueHammer85]

The tweet to say players shouldn't walk off the pitch and just ignore racist abuse. whatttta ****.

 

[Claytop]

Yep, he’s moved on to racism & homophobia today. Trying to cover all the bases I guess.

 

[cleavers]

Yep, he’s moved on to racism & homophobia today. Trying to cover all the bases I guess.

I expect he'll be voting for trump.

 

[Don Karleone]

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Nedum knows better than most the kind of person Barton is.

quite funny how it all started on the podcast talking about barton

that he has a pecker!!

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Does he want to go back to a world where people couldn't see in technicolour?

 

[BlueHammer85]

Does he want to go back to a world where people couldn't see in technicolour?

just needs clicks/shares and views for money.

 

[Bluemoon dan]

Pretty good summary of where he's at right now.