[simonsarris]

Yeah outside of politics and journalism, Twitter is incredible. I think @jack focuses far too much on a crowd that will always be dramatic, negative, and and rife with trolls/attacks/disinformation/pandering, because its part of their job description to be so. This is further awkward because journalistic outfits see themselves as a shining beacon of everything good to a degree that is somewhat comical.

Economics twitter, finance twitter, bio twitter, art twitter, intellectual subgroup(s) and unaffiliated smartypants twitter are all amazing. I have met many people through twitter, been invited to private slacks, made real friends, and learned so much. I love the platform. Way more intellectual than any other social network.

I just 99% stay away from the political machine on there, and the "toxic rage" that everyone is clamouring about seems to pass me by.

[zantana]

I logged in just to reply to this because I was one who generally doesn't like social media and thought of Twitter as just a proprietary version of RSS.

But I had to do some promotion for work and created an account and got hooked in. There is no doubt a lot of junk and the trending stuff tends to be sports and politics, but just like Reddit there is a lot of cool stuff there if you wander off the beaten path.

Things like the #pico8 https://twitter.com/hashtag/pico8 where people are posting simple pico8 patterns or As the Film Ends https://twitter.com/endingsummary a bot which posts final sentences from Wikipedia film plot summaries, are just cool.

I hope the service can endure in some form so oddball stuff like this will remain.