… the tide of Twitter umbrage narrows one’s gaze and discourages empathy. There’s never any time to wait to get out your take: fear of missing out, which is Twitter’s primary sensibility, requires that everyone offer an opinion before much is known — because by the time more is known, Twitter will already have moved on to something else.
—New York Times, in ‘Opinion | Never Tweet’
This also neatly summarises one of the many reasons I left Twitter.
Use my marker 