Spot on, this does get easier as one gets older, but one thing that makes it harder is Twitter itself. The nature of Twitter seems to create a primary-school-l

Spot on, this does get easier as one gets older, but one thing that makes it harder is Twitter itself. The nature of Twitter seems to create a primary-school-like atmosphere because of the short format and asymmetrical following mechanism. When you don't have the bidirectional communication it creates an effect like young children or people with underdeveloped social skills where you don't see peoples reactions and have a poor sense of what's really going on around you.