This isn’t my experience at all. Like Usenet, like Facebook, like Urbanbaby, Twitter brings out the best in some people and the worst in others.
I mean, yes, there are perverse incentives in any platform, but “perverse incentives” isn’t the same as “makes people into jerks.”
(The biggest perverse incentive Twitter gives me is encouraging me to splice quantitative data into tweets that don’t actually need it.)
(Seriously. Check it out the next time I go viral. The tweet probably says “18 out of 23” where “most” would do just fine. It’s a thing.)
