Gawker's Sam Biddle Sits Down With His Twitter Prey

Twitter disasters are the quickest source of outrage, and outrage is traffic.

But the one that resonated immediately with us comes a little later:

Justine Sacco had a face that wasn’t made up of pixels.

Indeed. How many of us would post all that we do if the face staring back was across the desk and human, rather than on the computer screen and Avatar size? Biddle’s article is all about how he was contacted and met with, six months after a high-traffic trail about a very unfortunate tweet, with the tweeted joke’s author, at the time head of global communications for media giant IAC.

Did Biddle, over dinner and margaritas, apologize to Sacco for what he’d done? How does it connect to a Twitter shit storm with Biddle in...