Writer Feuds on Twitter

Bret Easton Ellis, the author of “American Psycho” and the guy who actually wanted to write the screenplay for “50 Shades of Grey”, is infamous on twitter for his spats. He recently tweeted about Nobel laureate Alice Munro, saying: “Alice Munro was always an overrated writer, and now that she's won the Nobel, she always will be.”
Fortunately, Munro did not respond. But that is not all. Bret Ellis' most well-known twitter spat was with David Foster Wallace, who was by then dead. Triggered by reading Wallace's biography, “Every Love Story is a Ghost Story”, by D.T. Max, he started his tirade by tweeting stuff like: “Anyone who finds David Foster Wallace a literary genius has got to be included in the literary D-bag fools' pantheon…”
And,
“Saint David Foster Wallace: a generation trying to read him feels smart about themselves which is part of the whole bullsh*t package. Fools.”
It was considered harsh because Wallace wasn't alive anymore and therefore not able to answer him back. But to be fair, Wallace did bicker about Ellis' writing, calling it “mean, shallow, stupid.”
Maybe because Wallace's maximalist way of writing is more dominant now than the 80s' minimalism of the Brat Pack, of which Ellis was a part, has something to do with him going nuts on twitter.
Nonetheless, that isn't Bret Easton Ellis at his cruelest.
This tweet is: “I want popcorn banned from movie theatres.”
Another twitter war regarding writers happened around three years ago. Salman Rushdie had just recently joined twitter and as a way of greeting him, Taslima Nasreen tweeted: “Salman Rushdie is begging everyone to follow him on Twitter. He'll feel embarrassed if he doesn't get a million followers. Be aware of Salman Rushdie! He wants to get girls in his 'whipped cream range'.”
I don't get why she had to write this. Everyone on twitter wants more followers. The man had just started using it.  
Rushdie tweeted back, saying, “Somewhere in the distance I hear the envious miaow of #Taslima Nasreen being catty about me. Tut, tut, Taslima. #Shame #Lajja.”
Fun fact: Rushdie overshoot Nasreen's number of followers in two days. Apparently, he's more popular.
And there's more. It would be sacrilegious to talk about “twitter” and “war” without mentioning Jonathan Franzen, who every other day or so, when he is not planning to insult Oprah, devises a war on the microblogging site itself.
Franzen, in a scathing essay almost 140 pages long (irony?), compared twitter to cigarettes and jibed at Rushdie, saying: “I confess to feeling some version of his disappointment when a novelist who I believe ought to have known better, Salman Rushdie, succumbs to Twitter.”
Rushdie replied by tweeting: “Dear #Franzen: @MargaretAtwood @JoyceCarolOates @nycnovel @NathanEnglander @Shteyngart and I are fine with Twitter. Enjoy your ivory tower.”
And so on. We know writers going at each other's throats is old stuff, but they don't cease to amaze us in the manner they fight. Twitter is just one of the new mediums. This is why technology is imperative, so that writers can find new ways to embarrass each other and feel good about themselves. And we grab popcorn. Everyone wins.