Twitter was made for trouble

On Twitter…teens saw the street code in the workings of the site. “Whoever made Twitter,” said Tiana, in September 2010, “designed Twitter for trouble.”

She explained that she could see her friends’ confrontations with people she didn’t follow. Tiana was prepared to “jump into” these conflicts and expected her friends to do the same. In the context of the [street] code, Twitter seemed provocative. It placed users before a stream of other people’s conversations, with the prompt “What’s happening?”

Tiana, from The Digital Street by Jeffrey Lane, 2018, p. 72