This tweet hit nearly 70k likes. I feel like the responses were an excellent case in point of pre-Nov. Twitter's good and bad points.

On one hand, it got others sharing unlikely but true stories from Japanese and world history. On the other hand, I had people doing everything from accusing me of lying and belittling the Revolutions of 1848, to going "lol, still boring," to calling me slurs.

I'm not gonna miss the way the site was built to drive rage and the worst instincts of its users