Everyone head for a canoe

Well, Twitter did it.You can now send a message to upwards of 50 people at one time and none of those names counts against the 140 character maximum for a tweet.At first blush, it doesn't sound so bad. Many of us have been part of Twitter conversations with two, three, maybe even four people, and they get unwieldy and you want to drop people out so you can tweet properly but you don't want to insult them and then it just looks ugly and takes 12 tweets to say what you could've in three (you *know* this is how Twitter storms happened) and you just give up because ugh.So, sure, it's good for that.I also live-tweet a lot of television, and I could see how useful it could be for some shows/actors/showrunners to be able to reply to several people at once commenting on the same thing.Plus, it does look cleaner and neater to not have all those @ names in the tweet.But.Oh, yeah, there is a big but.The problem with Twitter is that people use it. And if we've learned anything - especially on Twitter - it's that people are why we can't have nice things.Problem scenario 1: Spam spam spammity-spam.People who used to send 50 to 100 tweets out begging people to sign up on their site, to read something, to click on their phishing scam, whatever - they will be able to send out WAY more of these messages. We're gonna get grouped in and dragged into endless threads because people are going to reply, but automatically reply-all because that's the default and wheee!Problem scenario 2: Reply-allSpeaking of, we're now bringing the horror of the reply-all email to Twitter. Who thought that was a good idea?Problem scenario 3: HateSorry to point this out, but Twitter has a problem with trolls and abusive people. So now they're making it harder to see who's tweeting at you and who else is included in the tweet, as well as making it harder to take certain people out of the thread.Smooth move, ex-lax.Photo via Twitter.