Understandable, Tom. I'll just point out that my "Twitter argument" is a little overblown. I'm mostly talking this out to see if my own thinking on the subject is correct. If he had come back with a decent argument for the practice, I would have found the exchange intriguing and I might have learned something from it. In my opinion, Twitter isn't going to be a place of reasonable debate due to the structure of such short messages.

It doesn't surprise me at all that I ended up getting the most out of this exchange from Tony'd excellent posts thinking over the topic. Thanks, Tony.