If you are going to post constantly about political and social issues, and be a NYT columnist about such issues, you are going to get counter points of varying

If you are going to post constantly about political and social issues, and be a NYT columnist about such issues, you are going to get counter points of varying quality. Some may be offensive. Twitter is a 2 way platform. Qualifying opposition viewpoints as bots, teenage boys, and angry man-boys doesn't help, and shows in a way that the writer is as hard headed as them. I am sure some of them are in that category, but Twitter bans people for outright threatening actions. I use Twitter to follow people that are in the software field or that I am otherwise interested in. I don't post non stop about social or political issues, and I don't follow anyone that does. I agree that it is a stressful and caustic environment, but you can't expect to be in it and not get the side effects. She can go back to speaking to sympathetic people and disconnect from real feedback. That is just going to put her in a silo. Facebook does that to people by only offering "likes", calling your followers your "friends" and presenting all news you like. Twitter is the real world albeit more caustic as people are pseudo-anonymous.