Leah Boyd, known for her “Sassy Seminary Student” persona on Twitter, said, “Sorry but what am I supposed to do now? make tik tok dances about Herman Bavinck??”
“Ok all jokes aside, if Twitter goes down I will be beyond devastated. God brought me a community of people who have supported me and brought me so much hope in the literal darkest hours of my entire life. Everyone here means the entire world to me. You are all the Church,” Boyd went on to say. “I cannot [overemphasize] how amazing it has been to connect with so many christians from around the world, of so many diverse backgrounds and beliefs. What a BEAUTY the church is. Even when it’s nuts.”
“In case Twitter dies, remember this. Christ died for our sin and rose again from the dead, overturning death itself so we might have eternal life in a new and perfect Kingdom,” tweeted Raymond Chang, president of the Asian American Christian Collaborative. “God is making all things new!”
Morgan Pōmaika’i Lee, host of Christianity Today’s “Quick to Listen” podcast, tweeted, “goodbye super bowl watch parties, election night meltdowns, people deliberately talking past each other on every issue known to humankind, award show murmuring, mass shooting fury, rex chapman showing up everywhere, canceling someone while they’re on a transatlantic flight…the president of the united states tweeting up until [his] followers tried to take out the vice president, that moment when a blue check celeb fav’d your tweet, the videos of someone’s greatest anguish up against someone live-tweeting an HBO soap opera, the sports! the sports!”
“We called it doomscrolling: all the hours you spent curled up with your phone as it offered the opposite of comfort, of safety, of reassurance, of peace, only thrills, and takes, and pronouncements, and euphoria, and snark, and laughter and the replies,” Lee’s thread continued. “It was a neighborhood, it was a hellscape, but above all a land and so came the bickering and defending and claiming and conquesting and looking up once in-a-awhile and cherishing and saying this is good. my people are here, i’m seen, i’m alive.”
Nevertheless, not everyone is so concerned about the prospect of Twitter crashing.
“One of the great traditions of Twitter is tweeters complaining about and doomsaying the state of Twitter. Things change but they stay the same,” tweeted author and pastor Barnabas Piper. “And I would bet good money, albeit less than $44 billion, that Twitter is not going anywhere.”
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Author and director of the Land Center for Cultural Engagement Daniel Darling remarked, “Everyone hyperventilating about the end of Twitter while on Twitter is quintessential Twitter.”
