It took Coates some amount of effort to isolate
the points in West's critique and post the pieces
that challenge them, so it's not like he was
treating Twitter as some unimportant space when
he did that. NOW you say Coates views Twitter
as inconsequential.

Coates had made a good showing of himself
in his response to West. Spencer knew that
as well as the rest of us did. There's even
a long line of ppl cheering for it in here
and it was a somewhat necessary showing.
That showing is now unseen due to Spencer's
simple action.

IF it's true that Twitter is unimportant
to Coates, then he changed his mind from
the time he responded to West and now.