[troad]

> If it's genuinely good enough and interesting enough it will turn up somewhere eventually or I'll just miss out.

Waiting a few years for the marketing to die down, the hype to move on, and the dust to settle has served me well. Time is an amazing filter of quality.

Twitter is a FOMO based product. What if you miss the latest announcement about some important breaking research development? What then?! You'll be behind! You'll have missed the bus! It's not like you can just wait five hours for the announcement to be reported on- oh wait.

And how often does that actually happen? Virtually nothing on Twitter has a shelf-life of more than one news cycle, which is reason enough not to waste time on it. The signal-to-noise ratio on Twitter is abysmal, and has gotten much, much worse in the last five years.