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But the fact is, he is hiding and tweeted about it. Therefore Twitter is one of his possible information venues. And she spams it with a vulture-like request in

• wwweston 9y ago
  > But the fact is, he is hiding and tweeted about it. Therefore Twitter is one of his possible information venues. Yes. And if you send out information via a venue like Twitter, you might expect responses that are a norm for Twitter. > And she spams it @'ing someone alone doth not spam make, particularly on a medium like Twitter where the default expectation is that you have a broad audience and some of them are going to talk back to you when you tweet. Characterizing that as "spam" is no more accurate than calling a reply on HN spam. > with a fucking vulture-like request The gratuitous profanity and vivid imagery associated with the aspersion here do both add a certain punch, but they're even more empty than the charge of spam. > instead of leaving the line clear for assistance... Twitter @'s & DMs are solidly asynchronous. "Line clear" doesn't apply. And if you're going to argue "well, sifting & skipping input takes precious time & attention," feel free, I guess, because you're simply arguing that an open Twitter account is the wrong medium for reaching out to people in an emergency.