I don't necessarily think you're wrong, I also don't think the difference is that different, and the goals in mind are worth taking into consideration.
People criticizing this shitty tweet are criticizing it because it's a shitty tweet. As with a lot of from-the-hip criticisms on social media, some are going to take it too far. Some are going to be performative about it. Some are going to squawk because they're in love with the sound of their own syllables colliding (ahem!). It happens here all the time too. In fact, many of this site's shittiest posts are essentially tweets both in construction and substance.
(my shitty posts are much, much longer, because I believe in providing production value, because I'm generous and benevolent)
The criticisms of those criticisms are aimed almost primarily at eliminating criticism, often completely divorced from the criticisms merits AS such. The thrust is almost always "you care about things wrong and you need to stop caring about things I don't give a fuck about"
Not only is this inherently cynical, but it looks to silence people's concerns, or at the least make them distrust their own emotional reactions towards sketchy shit. If people were addressing individual tweets (or actually tweeting back instead of pretending on one form of social media that they're above the other form of social media even though a lot of people here pushing that line have waited over a year to join this social media platform and have been here for 4 or 5 years if not double or triple that) that'd be one thing, but what almost always happens is:
1) All criticism gets lumped in with the bad criticism.
2) The criticism is renamed "outrage"
3) The term "faux-" (which is almost never used otherwise) is then glued to the front of it depending on if the person doing the impending dismissal feels like being fancy.
The difference I'm spotting in almost every variation of this dance that occurs whenever any thread turns to the notion of either GAF hive-mind or "The internet" as if it's an entity that isn't simply made up of people talking with each other, is that one group of people are talking about a thing that affected them, and the other group is talking about how the other group of people needs to shut up.
At which point it's not even about the thing anymore. It's about exerting control, or expressing frustration at the inability to exert control over people who aren't ashamed of themselves for giving a fuck about things just enough to say something about it on social media.
An action, which, by the way, every single person commenting on any social platform is guilty of indulging.
So it's a matter of deciding whether you wanna address the topic at hand, or whether you'd rather pour energy into making sure people be quiet.
