Jay Rosen: “so these are the six signs that identify the genre, twitter can’t topple dictators.

1. nameless fools are staking maximalist claims.
2. no links we can use to check the context of those claims.
3. the masses of deluded people make an appearance so they can be ridiculed.
4. bizarre ideas get refuted with a straight face.
5. spurious historicity.
6. the really hard questions are skirted.”