Some vendors who sell expensive software arrive (perhaps unintentionally) at this solution: produce software with enough defects or missing features that it cannot be used without regular contact with support. An adjacent idea is to produce software with a large number of plugins that are separately purchased. That multiplies the effort needed to crack and distribute everything.
I've had memory errors make many directory entries disappear in one directory on XFS, noticed only months later. When you write out bad data and the computer says everything is fine, you won't necessarily be able to get your data back.
For Twitter: switch to 'Latest Tweets' or use the search "filter:follows include:nativeretweets"; unfollow everyone or make a new account, use Twitter search a lot to search for things you're interested in (I like to query for phrases that only domain experts would know about), follow intelligent-seeming people and check their following list; quickly unfollow or mute anyone who is bad at tweeting.
Reducing the information content of a message, effectively concealing the information that you already plan to send after “Hi”, isn’t being polite to people with this personality, it’s frustrating.