“Twitter has really become a repository for the bitterness and toxicity that used to be the defining feature of Internet comments. A lot of the disaffected wannabes and will-never-be’s have gone from Internet comments through to Twitter — and Facebook, particularly since they’ve opened up subscriptions. If the better people are on Twitter, then the dumb people are on Facebook.”

Denton tells a whole lot more about tech in this GigaOm interview. Go and read it!