When Twitter was a scrappy underdog in the Web 2.0 eyeball wars, chatter about the service was like some kind of 1969 San Francisco love-in. But now that major newspapers are writing about it, celebrities are using it and Congressmen are abusing it, the haters are coming out of the woodwork. The haters hate Twitter — by hating a subset of its users. The haters think Twitter users are by definition narcissistic, insecure,

shallow, self-indulgent and insist on sharing every mundane detail of their dismal and pointless lives.But whether you choose to seek out and follow narcissistic, insecure, shallow, self-indulgent public who insist on sharing every mundane detail of their pointless lives, there’s something wrong with you, not the Twitter service. To focus on shallow users is to pretend that you didn’t choose to follow them.

Orginal post by Mike