What we can learn is that "mainstream media" (as they're called nowadays), the reputable, serious media that publish at large scale, should stay the fuck away f

What we can learn is that "mainstream media" (as they're called nowadays), the reputable, serious media that publish at large scale, should stay the fuck away from twitter (but also facebook and the rest of it). It's their reliance on easy vox-pops from social media that has given those platforms their almost global influence on opinions. Opinion settles (and divides) very quickly on twitter, and the rest follows out of fear of being called stupid or worse. That makes that publishing amibiguous information, or even being slow with an initial opinion, becomes a topic in itself. Corrections take forever, because you can't agree with the other side. Twitter is a cancer that's not going away soon, so the only option is to isolate it.