The Morning Skate, May 23: Hello, Seattle

Twitter just isn’t what it used to be.
Some of that is us: we’ve grown up.
Some of that is what nefarious forces realized Twitter would allow them to do.
And some of that is about how social media has allowed us to surface, in public, ideas that the rest of us wouldn’t have otherwise heard much of.
But sometimes, Twitter can still be a fine place.
A while back, John Pitarresi, sports chronicler in Utica who I wouldn’t have gotten to know but for Twitter, tweeted about the