Commentary
No, I’m not going to do yet another parody of Hamlet’s famous soliloquy. Since there have been so many, I would have to do an especially good one, and I don’t have anywhere near the confidence to think that I can.
I’m just referencing it as a way to introduce a problem that’s troubling me.
Like many others somewhat to the right of the center, I abandoned Twitter some time ago. My history with the site, I imagine, was in many ways typical. I had built up a number of followers, roughly 40,000, and then one day started to see them mysteriously and slowly disappear in tranches. I don’t remember the exact numbers—it’s been a while, and I wasn’t paying close attention—but the subtractions were in the thousands, going on over time….