Why Is Everyone on Twitter So Maddeningly Positive?  It's so
hard to start a good fight on Twitter. Praise someone
effusively, it gets "re-tweeted" endlessly, while nice juicy
feuds get smothered in the crib. Every Twitter user is president
of his own fraternity. How stale!  Thankfully this is starting
to annoy some people. Ad man Edward Boches wonders if "instead
of simply echoing each other's sentiments about the awesomeness
of community... we should have a few more disagreements." Yes,
yes you should! Marketing pundit Bob Knorpp called for a rougher
approach to the Twitter circle jerk: "If we're among friends, we
tend to fall into certain patterns... we're not pushing their
comfort zone."  Twitter Inc. would no doubt point to a paucity
of trolls as one of its defining features, and the microblogging
service's powerful social mores tame the internet in a way prim
critics like the New York Times' Randy Cohen have advocated. But
a flood of positivity can be just as pernicious as a wave of
nastiness, as anyone