Yeah I think that Twitter has been a major gateway drug to remember that Politics Matter. But after you've reached that point, Twitter becomes the place where

Yeah I think that Twitter has been a major gateway drug to remember that Politics Matter. But after you've reached that point, Twitter becomes the place where you read the same take 20 times over. Then you get the push notification from whatever news app you have installed on your phone. There's a huge amount of diminishing returns to following journalists on Twitter if you're already convinced that stuff is important. But it sure helped to establish the feeling that everything is on fire (and.... kind of always have been but right now's not great)