Twitter used to be amazing. I found real friends who shared common affinities and got freelance work on a regular basis. But now, twitter is full of political

Twitter used to be amazing. I found real friends who shared common affinities and got freelance work on a regular basis. But now, twitter is full of political nonsense and bots. I had an "ultramarathoner" tweet "lier" at me the other day. Honestly, HN is the closest thing to early-twitter that I know about for chatting about interesting stories.