The world would be a much better place if Twitter were used only by mouth-breathing weirdos battling one another in full-on flame wars over which is better: vi or emacs.

I'm not joking. I think the pathology that exists on Twitter has always been with us. But, years ago, there was only a "select" group of individuals who had their pathology amplified by Internet forums. Now, people who have no idea what a flame war even is — much less vi or emacs — go to war day after day. And there are millions of them, from every walk of life.

So, we've demonstrated flame wars are scalable. Hooray.