I'm old enough to remember when Twitter was new, and for a moment it felt like the old utopian promise of the Internet finally fulfilled: ordinary people would be able to talk, one-on-one and unmediated, with other ordinary people across the world, and in the process we'd find out that we're all more similar than different and mainly want the same things out of life, leading to a new era of peace and empathy.
It was a nice feeling while it lasted.