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Me neither. There are a bunch of core design decisions baked deep into Twitter that all encourage users to be confrontational and produce drive-by snark. I’m not sure how you remove those design decisions without turning Twitter into something that’s no longer Twitter.

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What core design decisions? It's a real question. I closed my Twitter account when I realised it made me unnecesarily unhappy but without really knowing why.

Character limit and somewhat unadulterated spread of popular tweets would be my guess.

Encourages "drive by snark" and shows stuff to people that are likely to snark.

I wrote a whole thing on that subject :-D

You can read it here: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/02/i-kind-of-hate-twitter/

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