Twitter is fantastic in many ways, but a double edged sword is how rapidly things (including bad faith takes) spread. You can misinterpret even someone you gene

Twitter is fantastic in many ways, but a double edged sword is how rapidly things (including bad faith takes) spread. You can misinterpret even someone you generally agree with, fire off an angry reply, tag in high profile accounts, and end up with a total mess in minutes. Other social media can be used in a similar way but the power of the @mention makes the "R value" particularly high on Twitter. If you say something in a podcast, a YouTube video, on a mailing list, or even in a HN comment, it's more likely to pass on by, even if it's something genuinely contemptible, than an innocuous but misinterpretable tweet.