My friend Lex has shaken me. I hate to use words like crisis and liberation and revelatory when I’m not talking about God, but those are the words that keep coming to mind as I’m here in the midst of a shaking.

Twitter is bad.

I tried giving up Twitter about two years ago, when I saw that the good folks at Good Morning America were tweeting, as a show. And they were doing a piece about Twitter and what it is and why it’s hot and new and here to stay and who tweets and how to tweet and why it’s not something to be afraid of anymore. I decided Twitter’s utter hipness, it’s Facebook-dethroning appeal to me, was dead. The secret was out. The sarcastic, crude, snobbish, exclusive, inclusive, community, authentic, artificial secret was revealed, the medium was corrupted. But no one on Twitter agreed with me, so I didn’t give it up after all.
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