Twitter beef is different from the kind of beef that you put on your table. It is an argument that occurs through tweets, often a heated one. Even though it is just an app, Twitter is a huge part of teenagers lives today. Along with many of my peers, I use it for announcements, news, and entertainment. Asides from all that, the best part of Twitter is the beef. Twitter beef is possibly one of the most amusing things out there. The stupidity of most of it is hilarious. I love seeing a random account get into it with another person on a major account like SportsCenter. Some people curse, and others just say really, really insipid things.

There are countless examples of insipidness on Twitter, such as many of the things that Jacob Sartorius tweets. Local beef is better though, and when someone on my feed starts beef with another, I instantly tune in and follow it. Friends are always getting roasted on Twitter, because it’s really fun to do, as long as you’re not severely hurting any feelings. Like Twitter beef, Twitter roasts, are not some sort of cookout. A roast is when someone is exposed or made fun of on social media, typically to the amusement of others.

There are frequent Twitter fights between students at our school and those at our rival school Washington and Lee. For example, a few weeks ago a student from WL tweeted his ACT score, boasting that he was the only student in Arlington County who had gotten such a score on the test. A few weeks later, a Yorktown student tweeted his score, also 36, and tweeted back “wait, what was that?”. It got a lot of likes and retweets. Witty responses like this one are part of what makes Twitter beef great.

Another example of beef happened in the aftermath of the Varsity field hockey game between the two school earlier this year. The initial argument was about the actual game (a victory for Yorktown), between the players from the two teams. Soon it turned into beef about which school was better academically. Screenshots of a random website with state high school rankings were tweeted as some sort of roast on the other, when really there is no major difference. It was utterly pointless, but it was quite funny how the participants were so serious about it.

In my own personal experience, I have never gotten into a full fledged argument with anyone on Twitter. It is something that entertains me, but not something I’d really like to engage in myself. Although I think Twitter beef is funny and fun to see, I tend not to engage in it. I’ll leave that to all the comics out there.