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Yes, it's partially Twitter's fault. Enforced brevity in a popularity contest setting encourages smartassery and discourages (or makes impossible) nuanced expre

by brazzy 14y ago

Yes, it's partially Twitter's fault. Enforced brevity in a popularity contest setting encourages smartassery and discourages (or makes impossible) nuanced expression.

anu_gupta 14y ago
Twitter isn't coming up to anyone, twisting their arm and telling them to be a dick. Lots of people manage to use Twitter without coming across like assholes. If one feels that 140 characters isn't sufficient to correctly represent one's nuanced thoughts, then don't tweet.
- SimHacker 14y ago
  And that's why I don't tweet!
  - jasonm23 14y ago
    Where's the button to give you 10million upvotes?
  - Evbn 14y ago
    And yet you expressed your idea in under 140 characters.
- brazzy 14y ago
  That's a main reason why I don't. But I gather that in some circles the social pressure to tweet is not much short of arm twisting. I doubt you could find many twitter accounts (barring commercial PR stuff) whose history is entirely free of rudeness.