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You might as well get off the Internet if that's your problem. Because it won't be getting any better for you.

The internet really does draw all the scumbags.

"Trying to have a private conversation with friends? Have some advertising shoved in your face! Don't like it? GTFO!"

No wonder Twitter is dying.

Anyway, I don't use Twitter much anymore, but have to agree with the OP. If I wanted the opinion of random strangers, I wouldn't go to Twitter, I'd just Google it.

Twitter isn't exactly a private conversation.

Neither is a conversation on the subway, but no one wants a stranger butting in trying to sell something.

When it comes to communications technology, what is possible is not the same thing as what is acceptable--or welcome.

Why not? My e-mail provider does a very good job of filtering spam. I'd just flag responses like this as spam on Twitter, too.

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