Using it to keep up with politics or news can quickly lead you to some of the most highly concentrated cesspools of humanity's worst thoughts. There will be abject ignorance or just plain noise among the top replies to pretty much any tweet by The Economist, the New York Times, Barack Obama (actually any politician), ...
However, I've found it healthy and helpful to tap into active communities built around certain computer science topics, like machine learning, or "ML Twitter."
Using it to keep up with politics or news can quickly lead you to some of the most highly concentrated cesspools of humanity's worst thoughts. There will be abject ignorance or just plain noise among the top replies to pretty much any tweet by The Economist, the New York Times, Barack Obama (actually any politician), ...
However, I've found it healthy and helpful to tap into active communities built around certain computer science topics, like machine learning, or "ML Twitter."