[jonahbenton]

Twitter is a place where interesting people doing interesting work in all kinds of fields with all kinds of priors from all kinds of perspectives post threads about their work generally for non-specialist consumption. Among my follows from intellectual perspective are animal studies folks, small book publishers, medieval studies, anthropologists, chemists, banking nerds, political scientists, contract lawyers, religious educators, sex educators, Native American advocates....

From cultural perspective as an older white northeast US man I pick folks to follow from as wide a demographic and timezone range as possible.

Lots of other stuff happens at Twitter too of course but this is what I use it for. Haven't found another soup like it.

And of course the VAST majority of the world is not on Twitter, maybe owns a phone but not a computer, and does interesting things unknown to the digital sphere. To actually EXPAND your worldview you have to travel. Go to the places, put your entire meatspace sensory apparatus in the environment. But the Platos shadow online version is I think what you were asking about.

There are LOTS of ways to optimize Twitter use but to start just make sure you change the algorithm to latest tweets, rather than "Home Tweets" and then start adding people. When you get up to 1000 follows you should have a steady stream of worldview novelty.

Addition: "meet" has multiple connotations and often the two way interactive meet with interesting people is hard/impossible because they are very busy and/or manage their time, etc. Twitter presents an opportunity for learning passively through osmosis, which is also not the same as two way interaction but can be worldview expanding all the same.