rich guy posts his rich guy problem on twitter. twitter responds

[cui bono]

215. Are you kidding?

I don't think you know how Twitter works.

The only way Twitter is "personal" is if you lock your account so that only your followers can see it. Otherwise you are tweeting out to the whole world. That's exactly how it works. It's akin to going out on a crowded street corner and yelling it out to everyone there. If he didn't want everyone to hear it he could have just told a friend in a phone conversation or email or written about it in a journal, which would be akin to telling a friend over lunch or telling just the bartender. He didn't do that. He went to what is probably the most public way of posting on the internet there is.

And no, I'm not saying someone can't use their Twitter account to express their displeasure, but it is in no way "personal" as you seem to think it is, it was never meant to be, and anyone and everyone on the internet can read it and respond to it if they like. He was, as the other poster said, "tone deaf" if he thought that people wouldn't think he was complaining about "rich man's problems".

No one is forcing anyone to read a newspaper either, I don't know why you think that's a criteria for whether or not something is out in public or not.