I've said it all before but here we go again
Twitter seems so persistently corrosive and unhappiness-inducing. Why is it? The author&#x27;s complaints are about other physicists&#x27; behaviors and attitudes to her writing, but it looks like much of it is specifically about Twitter interactions: about unhappy, defective people on Twitter (smart physicists, even) drawing other people into their miasma.<p>These are people using Twitter with <i>good intentions</i>: smart people who login simply intending to have interesting discussions about philosophical topics. Professionals interacting with other professionals, or writing about their field of expertise. They don&#x27;t seek out to waste time and serotonin on unpleasant social drama, but it finds them anyway.