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When he joined back in 2008, Lewis writes, he loved Twitter for the sense of community (and the page views it generated), but of late he says it has turned into a “dark place” with a bunch of “cynics and partisan cranks.” This very real deterioration in quality, however, is a thing of Lewis’s own making. Lewis, after all, hand-picked all those “cynics” and “cranks” as people he wanted to follow, as The Awl’s Choire Sicha noted. Looking through the 5,067 (!) users followed by @MattkLewis, it’s no wonder this Daily Caller contributor hates Twitter so much. …

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