A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Entry from November 21, 2022
“Mean tweets imply the existence of median tweets and mode tweets”

Twitter has sought to address online hate, as expressed in “mean tweets.” This has nothing to do with the terms “mean,” “median” and “mode,” but there are jokes.
   
“‘mean tweets’ implies the existence of ‘median tweets’ and ‘mode tweets’” was posted on Twitter by Clear and Present Banger on July 9, 2020. “Mean tweets imply the existence of median tweets and mode tweets” was posted on Twitter by Ostensibly Chris on November 19, 2022.
 
     
Twitter
Ted Van Dyk
@FakeTedVanDyk
Everyone is afraid of at @AOC’s mean tweets. But statistically speaking, you should be more concerned about her median tweets.
1:17 AM · Jan 12, 2019·Twitter for Android
 
Twitter
Clear and Present Banger
@sequencerider
“mean tweets” implies the existence of “median tweets” and “mode tweets”
4:18 AM · Jul 9, 2020·Twitter for Android
         
Twitter
Punmaster P 🌻
@PunmasterP
Don’t write mean tweets. Every mathematician knows that you should write median or mode tweets.
12:33 AM · Feb 24, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
Tim Chase
@gumnos
Replying to @mmasnick
what happens if I want to flag “mode” tweets instead of “mean” tweets? Can I choose a range of N standard-deviations from the mean tweets?
😉
2:57 PM · May 5, 2021·TweetDeck
 
Twitter
Jim Antle
@jimantle
What if we replaced mean tweets with median tweets?
4:23 PM · Apr 25, 2022·Twitter Web App
 
Twitter
Ostensibly Chris
@OCatholicMedia
Mean tweets imply the existence of median tweets and mode tweets.
9:02 PM · Nov 19, 2022·Twitter for Android

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