“As a social network, Twitter has more in common with Reddit than it does with the peers to which it’s more frequently compared — Facebook and Snapchat.”

“While those services are closed networks that host conversations between people who have accepted each other’s invitations to connect, Twitter has endeavored to be an open platform for free speech — one in which the community itself does the policing.”

https://backchannel.com/haters-gonna-hate-but-they-better-stop-doing-it-on-twitter-or-they-will-kill-it-4ed2b67ba8cd