One of the most common phrases heard in our household after we realize something interesting: "Boy could you not say that on Twitter."
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I think you're describing a bug, not of Twitter, but of contemporary American culture.
Very possibly. But there might be ways to design your way around that bug.
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OH is one way to get around this bug. Sometimes you just need a little plausible deniability.
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now I'm carefully rereading https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adsa%20oh&src=typd …
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Solution: write it up, think of a good headline/title, and post that to Twitter (which is designed to work over dumbphones with SMS).
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I think this is a case of us technologists having an inflated belief in our ability to shape human nature.
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Though there are definitely things about twitter (including its raison d'etre brevity) that make it more likely to talk past each other
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Would it be enough if you couldn't see their replies?
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