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I really sometimes wonder if it would be a net negative or net benefit to humanity if we could just shut down Twitter. I don't use it but I can't remember the last time I heard something positive happening on there. From my standpoint it's all just trolls, hate, arguments, trump, drama and angry mobs using the platform for censorship.

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That's also due to the news bias. If you never take the train yourself and only listen to the news, you can get the impressions that they crash or arrive late all the time and wonder why railway companies are still allowed to run...

Datapoint of one. I recently landed a freelance gig thanks to Twitter.

I’m sure there are many positive things happening. You don’t hear about them as loudly.

Curate the hell out of who you follow. Keep politics an arms length away if it impacts you. Use lists to organise who you follow based on a common theme. Makes twitter a gold mine of information if you know how to really mine it. Don’t let the algorithm dictate what you read.

That is because you are not using the platform but watching the news. Guess what is going to be on the news ? Only the outcry. Twitter has matured in last few years and is a fantastic platform if you know whom to follow. People crying about Twitter are not there to connect or learn from others, they are just there to cry and harass others.

Maybe it just looks like a great platform? It gives that nice illusion of communication, engagement, and activity. But would you be really worse off without all that?

That is part of the problem but not the biggest one

Twitter is filled with controversy because most of the "news" people that fan the flames use Twitter has their primary message platform, This is why twitter is talked about more than Reddit, or Facebook or any others. The activists that pretend they are journalists are all on twitter, all talking to each other, and rage baiting the mobs

positivity is hardly newsworthy is it? :D just think about it!

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