Yet it went from that to what it is now: a firehose from bedlam, an amplifier of every kind of human frailty and malice as well as a channel for “bots”, automated or semi-automated scripts designed to pump out propaganda. And the maddening thing is that, despite all that, conscientious journalists have to keep up with it just in case they miss a vital bit of breaking news.
Note from How to get Twitter back on song? #NoMoreRetweets -- John Naughton
Two ways to respond: webmentions and comments
Webmentions
Webmentions allow conversations across the web, based on a web standard. They are a powerful building block for the decentralized social web.
“Ordinary” comments