Alexander Stern is the author of The Fall of Language: Benjamin and Wittgenstein on Meaning and teaches philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans. He has written for the LA Review of Books, Aeon, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New York Times.
In any case, trying to use Twitter as a public square is like hiking the Matterhorn at Disneyland. Like the Matterhorn, Twitter is an amusement, not a place for exploration.