This Twitter Account Showcases “The Very Worst” Activity On The Site, Here Are 35 Of Their Most Facepalm-Worthy Posts
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Just like any other social media site, you can find anything on Twitter. Recipes, safety tips, comedy, personal stories, and of course, ignorant and facepalm-worthy tweets. That’s right, for every politician and social justice warrior on Twitter, there’s someone else divulging information that they probably should have kept to themselves or that might make you lose a bit of faith in humanity. (Sometimes, politicians even fall into that category too!)
And the perfect place to find the very worst of Twitter is Braindead Bird App. This Twitter account gathers the most chaotic, cringey and confusing tweets, that we can only hope were shared facetiously, and gives them an even larger platform. Keep reading to find a conversation we were lucky enough to have with the creator of Braindead Bird App himself, and be sure to upvote all of the posts that make you want to abandon social media forever.
Let us know in the comments if you’ve ever seen anything equally unhinged on Twitter, and then, if you’re looking for yet another Bored Panda article highlighting just how wild Twitter users can be, you can find more chaotic tweets right here!
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To learn more about Braindead Bird App, Bored Panda reached out to the page’s creator on Twitter, and he was kind enough to have a chat with us. We wanted to know what inspired the account in the first place, and apparently, it has humble beginnings. “Pretty much, I was just really bored on a family holiday and was scrolling through Twitter,” he told Bored Panda. “Thought it would be funny to just compile the worst of the app into one place.”
And he’s been quite successful at that ever since, as the page was launched in July 2021 and has amassed over 560k followers since then. The page has tweeted over 3,400 times and has been beautifully chronicling the worst corners of Twitter for over a year and a half now.
She did indeed lose the internship. Careful what you post online
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She lost her internship. Her friends then started tweeting and DMs at Hickam so he blocked them, but the woman herself emailed him and apologised. He doesn't work for NASA but because they were tagged in the tweet, he was worried that her use of language could be seen as unprofessional and he knew NASA had a public speaking/social media policy so he said "language" in an attempt to warn her she was contravening that policy. I don't think she got her internship back.
But instead of thinking about why he said that, Naomi doubled down.
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As a certain TV judge says: "Say it forget it, write it regret it". Once it's out there in cyberspace, it's out there forever. Naomi was unprofessional and learned a lesson the hard way. It's a shame; a once in a lifetime opportunity gone.
If Naomi doesn't know who Homer Hickam is, she doesn't deserve to work at NASA.
To be fair I'm sure she knows now. Im sure she recounts the tale to her customers at McDonald's often.
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He had a movie made about him: October Sky (anagram for "rocket boys", as they were teens who developed their own rockets at the time)
Ok, but if some random guy on the internet tried to correct my language, I wouldn't listen to him because it's extremely rude to try to police the verbal habits of other people! The fact that he was Homer Hickham was unfortunate, but I think Naomi losing her internship just because she swore in a moment of great emotion is definitely overkill
Unlike speaking, when you type a comment you have a chance to check, proofread, and double check before posting. If you post inappropriate content with a direct link to your employer then you run the risk of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" catching up with you.
Load More Replies... Homer Hickam!! He is one of the main characters played by Jake Gyllenhall in the memoir movie (don't know if that's the word) October Sky based on the book Rocket Boys!! I loved this movie!
It was filmed around where I grew up in Tennessee. I even got to be an extra and one of my friends actually went up to Jake and introduced himself. Brought him around to meet the other extras that were on location that day. Pretty cool experience.
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Read " October Sky" you'll see who he is. Or watch it. Also titled in first print ,The Rocket Boys. Ones of my heroes.
I don't think she should've lost her internship over this. She was excited and used a swear word to express her excitement. She didn't know who he was and probably assumed he was trolling her.
Maybe she should have looked him up before doubling down. My company doesn’t delve into employees social media, but we do scan & store mentions of us. If mentions need addressing, we reach out to the poster. If it were a potential new hire telling a board member, known to them or not, to F off, we’d probably rescind the offer. Reputation and all!
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Dude thats a really cool guy there's a book and a movie about him- rocket boys & October sky, would recommend.....the fact that she hasn't realized who she's talking to is funny to me
Infamous screenshot. The most unfortunate thing to happen on Twitter before Elon Musk started making anti vax memes.
Everyone's always "oooh sucks to be her" but the dude shouldn't have been tone policing in the first place.
I hope there is an employee code of conduct for NASA which covers social media, if not, Homer has absolutely overstepped. Edit - other comments say there was one but Homer didn’t work for NASA so IMO could have just shut up or sent a quiet word of advice. The single word comment of ‘language’ was patronising at best.
A bit harsh to have her lose her job. People at NASA saying worse things, it's not that they don't just because it's not on Twitter or in hearing range of anyone else. And people at NASA *did* worse things than swearing (big group of people, so bound to have real arseholes among them, simply statistics). What you do is, the next time the newbie is at the office you tell them what not to do. Or, Idk, let people be people. Swearing doesn't kill.
We also wanted to know what the creator of Braindead Bird App actually thinks of Twitter. “I used to hate it with a passion, but I’d be a hypocrite saying that now because I’m on it so much,” he admitted with a laugh. “It can definitely have some nice moments, but the fact that anyone can use it means there are always going to be some nutcases.”
When it comes to the "nutcases" he features on his page, however, I was curious if many of them are joking when they tweet, or if they really believe what they’re saying. “Most of the tweets are people being serious, but I like to post satire I find funny sometimes,” the creator told Bored Panda. “Just as a more light-hearted thing for people to laugh at, rather than the usual doom and gloom.”
As a female who is adopted, I really do not understand the apparent obsession that some women have with having a “biological child”. Especially the ones that will state they love children and “want children”. So adopt or foster! But it seems like many of them don’t even try, and just act outraged and angry that they can’t physically have kids, whenever any other woman dares to bring up abortion, etc. I know it’s a mindset I don’t understand, as I was adopted and I don’t see why a woman wouldn’t adopt if she couldn’t have kids but WANTED them so badly.
I'm not from the USA, so I may well be wrong, but this isn't something the President can do by themselves. It would require the Legislative branch of government to act on it as well. Without those two arms of government working together the gun problem will remain. Therefore, it is a very reasonable question to ask.
Finally, we asked the account’s creator what he thinks Twitter should be used for. “Twitter should be used to open people’s minds, rather than shut down people's beliefs,” he shared. “At least my posts give a reason to debate in the replies, so people are learning more about their own beliefs and others.”
If you haven’t already, be sure to give Braindead Bird App a follow on Twitter right here!
If you’re not super familiar with Twitter, let me inform you that the website is famous for chaos. Donald Trump used to use his account to attack “haters”, until he was eventually banned, and there’s a long list of people who have been de-platformed for spreading misinformation, inciting violence and committing other offenses the site. In recent months, however, the bird site has been even more controversial than usual, as it has recently been acquired by Elon Musk, who aims to implement many changes. For example, previously, having a blue “verified” check on your Twitter account meant that you were a celebrity or public figure who had been vetted by the service to prove you weren’t an imposter. The significance of a blue check has recently gone flying out the window, though, as users can now purchase a verified badge for $7.99 a month.
Many celebrities have also decided to jump ship and delete their Twitter accounts, bidding adieu to their followers due to recent developments on the platform. Indy100 reported that Stephen Fry, Whoopi Goldberg, Gigi Hadid, Jameela Jamil, Toni Braxton, Shonda Rhimes, Sara Bareilles, Tea Leoni, Brian Koppelman, Erk Larsen, Mick Foley and Alex Winter have already announced their departures from the site, but the list is expected to grow in the coming months. Elon Musk also quickly lost control of his platform after initially tweeting that “comedy is now legal”, and soon following that up by introducing new rules about parody accounts, when he realized that he was being impersonated ruthlessly.
It took a bit of searching but I found the original post, the young lady is called Neghar.
Many also wonder if Twitter will become even more unhinged, and perhaps even dangerous, as Elon Musk has threatened to restore accounts from users who had previously been banned. “New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, not freedom of reach,” Musk said in a tweet in November 2022. “Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.” While that might sound all well and good in theory, the power to ban accounts exists for a reason. The last thing we need is a platform where people can freely spew racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or transphobic rhetoric.
According to Snopes the picture is staged with prop tools and a boy that young couldn't afford an expensive pipe. But he could be a breaker boy. "For 10 hours a day, six days a week, breaker boys would sit on wooden seats, perched over the chutes and conveyor belts, picking slate and other impurities out of the coal. Breaker boys working on top of chutes or conveyor belts would stop the coal by pushing their boots into the stream of fuel flowing beneath them, briefly pick out the impurities, and then let the coal pass on to the next breaker boy for further processing. Others would divert coal into a horizontal chute at which they sat, then pick the coal clean before allowing the fuel to flow into "clean" coal bins."
Over the past couple of months, there has actually been talk about Twitter potentially shutting down, due to losing so many employees and possibly being unable to keep its most important services running. And while the end of the bird app does not actually appear to be coming any time soon, the panic in November 2022 inspired some users to become even more chaotic than usual and begin confessing their secrets and “shooting their last shots” on the site. “I feel bad about doing this, but Twitter is probably going down soon and this is the last chance to get this circulated,” tweeted Amber Brown, a 28-year-old streaming producer from Los Angeles. “Help fix my liver!” She added with a link to her GoFundMe page, where she is asking for help to pay her medical bills.
“If Twitter implodes this is your last chance to tell me you’re in love with me so shoot your shot,” Phoebe Kimball tweeted, alongside photos of herself, in November. And Jennifer Crawford, a 49-year-old architect in Sydney, Australia, shared that before Twitter “implodes” entirely, she wanted to confess something she did when she was a university student. “I once took a cask of peach cooler to a uni party and left it under the table,” she wrote, referring to the nonalcoholic fruit cocktail. “I was 18. Give me a break.” The fear of losing Twitter seems to have brought users together, but it also may have encouraged them to become even more chaotic.
We hope you’re enjoying this list of some of the reasons you might want to deactivate your Twitter account right now, or why you may feel inspired to sign up for the site (depending on how you view these wild tweets). Keep upvoting the pics you find most hilarious or cringey, and let us know in the comments what your thoughts are on this Braindead Bird App. Then, if you’re looking for even more crazy tweets, we recommend checking out this article next!
I cooka da meatball (btw, there's more to that exchange and it's hilarious)
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Remember when village idiots stayed in their village and noone paid attention to their inane ramblings? Then the internet came along and gave them an audience of millions.
Why haven't aliens contacted us?..... We transmit this out into the cosmos so they know there's no intelligent life here.....
Hello. Yes, I am aware of that now…
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These people's Brain.exe haven't stopped working, it wasn't installed in the first place
Someone waved a magnet over their hard drive right after it was put into the chassis.
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Pretty cool how this article literally used only one account from Twitter, and basically just grabbed/appropriated tweets from that account (oh and! Added the bored panda watermark at the bottom like they created it). And the account they took everything from literally just took screencaps of other people's stuff, many times not even naming them.
Remember when village idiots stayed in their village and noone paid attention to their inane ramblings? Then the internet came along and gave them an audience of millions.
Why haven't aliens contacted us?..... We transmit this out into the cosmos so they know there's no intelligent life here.....
Hello. Yes, I am aware of that now…
Load More Replies... These people's Brain.exe haven't stopped working, it wasn't installed in the first place
Someone waved a magnet over their hard drive right after it was put into the chassis.
Load More Replies... Pretty cool how this article literally used only one account from Twitter, and basically just grabbed/appropriated tweets from that account (oh and! Added the bored panda watermark at the bottom like they created it). And the account they took everything from literally just took screencaps of other people's stuff, many times not even naming them.
