April 22nd, 2009
I suppose a medium can’t be responsible for its users. I get that as an intellectual proposition. Tens of thousands of incredibly stupid–or even morally repugnant–people have written books, but we don’t hold the book responsible as a format.
But for some reason, I think Twitter might be different. It seems to attract more–much, much more–than its share of users who combine vapidity and vanity in ways that are embarrassing even by the standards of the internet.
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