howler

After a howler like that, reading on is hard.

The OP doesn't even mention William Lehey, let alone include a howler about him.

A generally good post, but the claim that Newmark "refuses to take responsibility" for "breaking" newspapers is something of a howler.

'"This quote would be a howler: "'Ashana is an example where resilience and persistence will pay off in the long run despite coming from a situation where the odds were against her.

Where to start...I think the real howler is the idea that there could ever be a level playing field between well-funded government and corporate intelligence operations and private citizens.

The biggest howler I saw was "The SSI unites trained software developers with scientists to help them add new lines to existing codes, allowing them to tackle extra tasks without the programs turning into monsters.

The article has one other howler: "But others, encouraged by lax oversight and lucrative payoffs, use the rental sites to run ad-hoc hotels, which besides annoying neighbors, takes long-term rentals off a market that desperately needs them.

In describing "what could happen," they seem to be taking the worst-case scenario what would happen if both the programmers at Twitter and the professionals who use it for their business were in fact rabid howler monkeys and then twisting it to make it look even worse.