No. Totally wrong direction. Apologizing to a mob is just terrible advice. It's going to get people's careers and lives ruined. A mob cannot forgive, especially

No. Totally wrong direction. Apologizing to a mob is just terrible advice. It's going to get people's careers and lives ruined. A mob cannot forgive, especially on Twitter. Never grovel in front of one. Apologizing to a mob and begging for a respite just makes the mob angrier. A platform-level feature to make this groveling easier is just going to encourage this wrong-headed response, and it can't possibly work, because even if you disable direct replied, people can still post about whatever they want an amplify their anger in a million other ways. The article is right about one thing: social media is a hothouse of hate. The best way for us to get out of this dystopia of rule by Twitter mobs is to ignore everything that happens on Twitter. It's not the real world.