Twitter-as-machine is a sick device designed to ram ideologically opposed and volatile people together to generate engagement. That part is a cess-pool. Twitter

Twitter-as-machine is a sick device designed to ram ideologically opposed and volatile people together to generate engagement. That part is a cess-pool. Twitter-as-community, the flowers that grow in the cracks in the pavement, where people organically find each other, make friends, share memes and art, is something else. It seems a shame that we must have both or neither.