I had a Twitter account since late 2010 until a few months ago. I'm not much of a social media guy, but I felt that I had some sort of addiction during those ye

I had a Twitter account since late 2010 until a few months ago. I'm not much of a social media guy, but I felt that I had some sort of addiction during those years, an addiction that made me go back every few weeks and "leave" after feeling Twitter's toxicity. Their system is smart at appealing to very specific personalities that just can't help being toxic. These people produce tons of controversial content and generate a lot of traffic. However, the system also operates at a collective level by forming closed groups of users, that fall somewhere between gossipy cliques and low key cults. This is by far the scariest side of Twitter.