When your tweets are seen by a sufficiently large number of people, Twitter becomes an amazingly powerful Mechanical Turk for answering the question "What are all the ways this statement could be misrepresented?"
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Is it even remotely possible with 280 characters? Need space for context, disclaimers, etc.
You may not be able to express ideas that are a sufficient combination of (a) subtle and (b) controversial. But you can express many ideas. I only get burned once every couple weeks.
