[inductive_magic]

>The annoying popups you get when you scroll too far without being logged in, do at least prevent me from doom-scrolling

I feel the same way! When they come up, my reaction is "nice"+cmd-w. Thanks, twitter!

To your response: I mean, there are some curious people on twitter. Curious people don't engage in the problematic dynamics outlied in the article, so some exchange of information happens there. That's clearly not representative of the bigger picture though, simply because the most people can't afford curiosity, courtesy of their cognitive functions (if you subscribe to Jungs model) and/or their position in maslows pyramid.