I had the same realization recently, and deleted my Twitter account in favor of a new one where I only follow people I know in real life. That worked great for

I had the same realization recently, and deleted my Twitter account in favor of a new one where I only follow people I know in real life. That worked great for a couple of weeks, but now I log on Twitter and half of my feed is tweets of people I don't know or follow, with the worst, most infuriatingly stupid hot takes. No wonder they have literally hundreds of thousands of likes. The platform is built around this "content".