When your follower/following count is small and you're getting to know people and build a community of people you otherwise wouldn't meet IRL, it can be a great thing. When you start getting inundated with too much information when you have 10K + followers, it can be overwhelming and you lose the signal within the noise and find that it may start affecting other parts of life. I suppose each person is different, but that burned me out and made me uninterested and I burned it all down. I found I was losing sleep checking my phone and getting unusually addicted to stupid things.

Twitter was best when I followed comedians, record labels and venues.

(And I should note I left in 2017 when even the funny people couldn’t get a grip on what was happening online)

This is what short form posting was meant for. Jokes and quips from witty people and announcements for things I care about.

That Twitter became a primary source of news for anyone is a major indicator of the decline of civilization

politics and hack takes abound, but there were some legitimately funny people on twitter (some of whom've migrated to other platforms).

mostly bad, though.