Twitter is an amazing machine of outrage, misunderstanding and hatred. It allows the benign comment to be taken as an offense and it amplifies genuine offensive

Twitter is an amazing machine of outrage, misunderstanding and hatred. It allows the benign comment to be taken as an offense and it amplifies genuine offensiveness, bullying, witch-hunting and harassment. There are some wonderful things Twitter does, especially around real time news of non-controversial events such as natural disasters, but if the service is a net positive for the world, it's by the slimmest of margins.