Oh, I never followed the live stream on Twitter either, because as you say - raw sewage. Some of it is funny (in a dark way) sometimes, but it's too much and I don't really care about much of it. So I often see secondary sources first anyway.

Before "truth social", Twitter was just often how those secondary sources would first hear of things to investigate. It's just one of the places where the shit would first come out. Hence "international politics is done via Twitter" not because it's good or proper to do so, but because that's simply what's been happening lately.