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""Thank you," he wrote. "I love it when people are able to change their grammar based on a logical argument. I'm like that - in fact, I actually enjoy learning and adopting new grammar-but I frequently run into people so emotionally attached to their grammar that they will defend what 'sounds right' to the death.""

"And his tweets, some of them uncomfortably raw, struck a nerve. Fellow journalists, technology writers and countless others spent the past several days monitoring Twitter, hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. An online community that is so often dismissed for being quintessentially banal - think of the proverbial tweet of what someone had for breakfast - embraced Scott's grief in a way we rarely see play out in public. "