> We hang over each other’s heads, more and more heavily, self-appointed swords of Damocles waiting with baited breath to strike. This is the key. Twitter has

> We hang over each other’s heads, more and more heavily, self-appointed swords of Damocles waiting with baited breath to strike. This is the key. Twitter has a serious problem with abuse, and it's not the abuse that's usually talked about. At any point, anything you say -- no matter how anodyne -- can be ripped out of context by someone with malevolent goals and then used to trigger a global outrage storm. This has resulted in death threats or people even losing their jobs. I wouldn't post on Twitter any more than I'd take a shortcut through a dark alley in a bad neighborhood in the middle of the night. Why take the risk?