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Twitter stalking Justin McElroy

I landed on Justin McElroy because of the people whose profiles I stalked his was the most active. There's a surprising amount of people on Twitter just cross-posting their Instagram feeds.

Justin McElroy is a podcaster and a former journalist for the video game website Polygon. I listen to a bunch of the podcasts he makes, mainly My brother, my brother and me, which he makes with his brothers Travis and Griffin, and Sawbones, a medical history podcast that he makes with his wife, Dr. Sydnee McElroy.

Justin posts on twitter multiple times a day. Most of the tweets he makes himself are humorous in nature, but he retweets and links to more serious subjects as well. Most of his page is links to projects and articles that he wants to bring attention to, such as cross-promoting various podcasts and bringing attention to his wife's campaign of standing up against anti-vaxxers. Not surprisingly, this week a good amount of tweets went into encouraging people to vote in the US election.

The main way that he communicates with his fans is by retweeting fan art that people make of this various projects and he has recently been retweeting peoples cosplays that they wore for halloween. There's some back and forth but with his hundreds of thousands of followers, he obviously doesn't have time to respond to all of them.

All in all, he's a thirty-something father of two and I feel like hi's internet persona reflects that. There's a certain wholesome dad energy about him.


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