In the ego-driven game of Twitter, Jofi Joseph was, for a while, one of the winners.
His 1,600 followers put him far below a Kanye West or even an Andrew Sullivan — but they were quality followers, an international relations in crowd that lapped up his 140-character snark and insight. The Atlantic last year commended Joseph's shrewd analysis of White House maneuvers; Foreign Policy wrote a mournful blog post when his tweets about national security policy came to a sudden end.
But what did it get him?
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