[ams6110]

What's with the twitter fixation? I've benefitted from Knuth's work for over 20 years (as a practitioner, not an academic). Twitter? To me it's a curiosity at best; I've never used it.

[moe]

Seconded. Just the idea of mentioning twitter in this context inflicts almost physical pain on me.

Knuth is regarded by many as an Einstein-like figure in Computer Science. How that remotely relates to a web-company is beyond me.