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This person is part of a group that seemingly posts to twitter and cites twitter as statement against academic institution and traditional scholarship. Some members of the group are academics themselves. Maybe some things can only be posted there, and so your intuition is correct. But I think you misunderstand why specifically you are seeing twitter links so prominently used. My sense is it's attacking the politics of citation.

The politics of citation, to be clear, are actually quite fucked up and elitist. E.g., Feminist Approaches to Citation https://cmagazine.com/articles/feminist-approaches-to-citati...