This is the room with electricity.

My overuse of Twitter was part of a larger set of issues I have. I have a deep hunger for information, distraction, and activity. If I slow down my stimulation or creation, I start to feel useless and confused. Throughout my life, I've usually satiated that hunger with cultural consumption and work, but Twitter gave me the chance to feed it more efficiently — and even more unhealthily. Feel like you're not learning enough about the world? Hop on Twitter and you can get a limitless stream of (mostly worthless) words and data points. Concerned that you're not writing enough? All it takes is a few seconds to squirt out a tweet, broadcast it to thousands of people, and wait for the faves, RTs, and replies to roll in. Worried you're using Twitter too much? Just tweet about how Twitter sucks! Before you know it, the day will almost be over and you'll have the low-level buzz of information overload keeping you company and distracting you from your problems. It was a soul-draining process that fit my neuroses like a glove

Basically, Twitter is the perfect platform for two things: snark and assholery…. In the end this is a lesson about economics. What happens when you vastly reduce the cost of being an asshole? Answer: the supply of assholes goes up.