At Mozilla, we believe part of making the internet we want is celebrating the best of the internet, and that can be as simple as sharing a tweet that made us pause in our feed. Twitter isn’t perfect, but there are individual tweets that come pretty close.
Each week in Top Shelf, we will be sharing the tweets that made us laugh, think, Pocket them for later, text our friends, and want to continue the internet revolution each week.
Here’s what made it to the Top Shelf for the week of August 16, 2021, in no particular order.
You shouldn't be able to have Instagram ads for items that are sold out! These should be the rules!!!
Cleared all my group chats and still have this left should I just get a new number pic.twitter.com/14wGdHGxnB
— Taylor Lorenz – AWAY ON BOOK LEAVE (@TaylorLorenz) August 19, 2021
2. If you look at Facebook's own analytics site, Crowdtangle, or independent analytics sites they will tell you that the most popular links each day come from right-wing sites like Daily Wire
If being an adult has taught me anything, it's that the internet will always find new ways to innovate pornography and then fuck over the people who make it.
sorry I'm just absolutely losing my mind at the idea of an entire industry of media professionals allowing Facebook to dictate what kind of content does best and the sixth most-viewed link on the whole damn site is "https://t.co/LoO0OZ2JjS" pic.twitter.com/tM6qXBIS6g
i should’ve realized only fans was gonna pull something like this in march when they kept asking me, a writer, to use the platform to sell blogs. i was like, ‘you guys know what you do…right?’ turns out…no?