Twitter deliberately promotes outrage. While hateful screaming is nothing new in the world of politics (or elsewhere), for Twitter and other ad-sellers this is a way to capture attention of users and drag them into flame wars.

See this blog for one case thereof: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=46541

I don't see "so and so Liked this tweet" in my feed, and I only see get a handful of promoted tweets, so it feels like they've eased up on adding noise to our feeds. I also set my location (arbitrarily) to Cook Islands, and now my "$LocalArea trends" widget is empty (thank God), so with aggressive culling I now have a Twitter feed that shows me what I asked to see.

It might be useful to note that I don’t actually have a Twitter account. So I just read a handful of people’s pages once in a while who do a good job of pulling in all the best things of the communities I care about, and also people send me tweets from time to time. So usually I can skip over most of the drama.

You can (and I propose you should) use Twitter with the chronological timeline feature enabled. It's why Twitter is usable for me while Facebook is not.

> Twitter itself added noise to my feed.

Agreed for the actual Twitter site, but it doesn't seem to happen nearly as much with Tweetdeck. (In fact, I'm not sure Tweetdeck even shows ads.)

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

realtwitter.com is a redirect to the search query you want, and then click "Latest".