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		misnome on Aug 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Are People So Upset With Twitter? Let's Grab a... Is it me, or does this ridiculous metaphor just make it much, much harder to understand? I'm pretty aware of what's going on with the whole Twitter thing at the moment, and I found this really impenetrable.

pronoiac on Aug 25, 2012 [–]

I'm with you. I've been annoyed with reasoning by analogy and metaphor for a while now, because it's so often bogus.

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