AOC steps away from Twitter over 'negativity,' vows return – New York Post

And just like that… Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) returned to Twitter Tuesday after claiming she was done with the social media giant. The “Squad” member ended her brief Twitter hiatus — which she said she was taking due to “negativity” on the platform — only to target West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a fellow Democrat, over his opposition to President Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill. The tweet came after Ocasio-Cortez announced that she was on a break from Twitter — in response to an Instagram user who pointed out that the congresswoman had not posted anything on either her personal or official page since Thursday. “When will you come back to twitter?? You’re missed,” the user wrote AOC on the lawmaker’s Instagram Story. “That’s so funny you bring that up,” Ocasio-Cortez replied. “Yeah, when I got COVID, I turned off all my devices, which means I wasn’t really on social media that much or anything like that.” She then revealed that when she logged back on, Twitter would make her feel unwell.  “So I mean, literally, I would go to open the app and I almost felt like, anxious,” Ocasio-Cortez explained. “People kind of fight and gossip and all this other stuff so much, but — and there’s a lot of negative, negativity on there…
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