Has your Twitter felt a bit crowded lately? As if you’re having a pleasant conversation at a restaurant, when suddenly the guy at the table next to you decides to speak five ticks louder on the volume nob? You want to continue chatting about whatever it was, but you can’t hear yourself think, because this wise guy believes the entire diner needs to hear his plan to save democracy using some obscure methodology he acquired from a Dark Souls 3 strategy guide. If that sounds like your Twitter timeline, blame the rise and rise and rise of the tweetstorm.

Way back in 2014, BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel warned us about the increasing popularity of the tweetstorm, a cheeky name for when someone spams your Twitter timeline with dozens of tweets,…

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