I wish there were a way to measure the net result of Jack and friends on our culture and world. A deep inclination ( just anecdotal ) leads me to believe it would be a far negative balance.

The human, cultural and monetary cost of polarizing national and world events which find their origins, planning, fomenting on twitter have to be staggering.

I mainly use twitter to talk/catch up with a few friends, and follow a few things I care about. I honestly don't know how many people use twitter this way but for me it's really enjoyable, especially since the "desactivate retweets" feature for this friend that can't stop retweeting shitstorms. It's not perfect, and sometimes outside events that I don't want to hear about leak into my timeline, but it's a bit like small talk, sometimes people will talk about things that you don't care about. I wouldn't call this "great value" but I've never used facebook or others social networks so it's nice to see how some friends are doing.

I encourage everyone to be very aggressive with muting/desactivating retweets/having a private account/not quote-retweeting/not react to everything that happens in the world in general, this way it's possible to not expose yourself too much hate.

You're following the wrong people my friend.