Twitter is a platform for out-of-context, extremely condensed texts. Both together is very difficult to handle. And many people just use Twitter when they feel they have a stupid idea, kind of a platform competing for stupid jokes.

Also, if you hear some comment like this in real life, do you set on a quest to destroy that person's life? No, you got your own things to deal with.

In my perception, the US are very hype-driven. Someone from somewhere said something. Everywhere: nothing. US: Media coverage. We have a president that constantly tweets things way worse. Why worse? Because these words matter! The author's "most damaging tweet ever" should not have mattered, to nobody. The most severe consequence should have been the lack of likes.