Like others have mentioned, even if you just want to use twitter to follow other engineers or designers etc.. Twitter will invariably find a way to show you the

Like others have mentioned, even if you just want to use twitter to follow other engineers or designers etc.. Twitter will invariably find a way to show you their annoying political takes, and other from people they liked or are even vaguely connected. I was on Twitter for a little while about 10 years ago now for the same reason, but then ditched it in 2015/16 when I started seeing this happen more. Everyone wanted social points for shitting on whoever was deemed to be on the wrong side of history or whatever it was then. I used the t ruby cli for twitter and backed up my lists of follows and followers, then unfollowed everyone without deactivating my account. Interestingly, even while following nobody, I still got the same shit in my feed. I eventually did an official twitter backup (which is admittedly quite a good offline webapp), and deleted the account, because fuck that place. My approach was the digital version of tossing all your potentially useful possessions in a bag and putting it in a storage locker; if you don't think to go and get it for a year, toss it in the garbage.