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Twitter has the concept of the twitter canoe - an exchange you sometimes find yourself in the middle of, where conspiracy theorists and Trumpist wingnuts launch into impassioned debates around you, while you sit there, grateful there's at least something in your mentions for once.
Twitter has the concept of the twitter canoe - an exchange you sometimes find yourself in the middle of, where conspiracy theorists and Trumpist wingnuts launch into impassioned debates around you, while you sit there, grateful there's at least something in your mentions for once.


Ordinary email has its equivalent  to the Twitter canoe: the to-all chain, which is punctuated by [[thx]], people addressing their colleagues as @andy and the whole dismal experience snowballs when participants begin to throw unsuspecting co-workers into the canoe — and under the bus — without warning.
Ordinary email has its equivalent  to the Twitter canoe: the to-all chain, to which you can [[reply-all]], which is punctuated by [[thx]], Millennials outraging their  
elder colleagues by addressing them as @andy and the whole dismal experience snowballing when participants begin to throw unsuspecting co-workers into the canoe — and under the bus — without warning.


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