A Twitter executive banished laptops from his meeting, and the reactions were excellent

Anyone who’s led a meeting or given a presentation in the last decade has had the uneasy sensation of looking at a room of heads buried in laptops.

Are they taking notes? Shopping on Amazon $AMZN? Slacking about how lame your presentation is? Who knows?

Apparently Twitter $TWTR vice president Keith Coleman had enough and banished laptops from his meeting. Like sneakers outside a yoga studio, the laptops were exiled from the room, leaving their owners free to focus on the matters at hand, according to a tweet from Paul Stamatiou.

Reactions on Twitter covered the gamut. Some were enthusiastically supportive:

Others were nervous:

Because it’s Twitter,  there was snark:

Coleman’s boss, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, was skeptical:

And as bosses tend to do, Dorsey thought Coleman had room for improvement: