I've been using twitter for 10 years, and it's generally been "OK" (but still net positive, it helped me get an internship and a job). Last year twitter became

I've been using twitter for 10 years, and it's generally been "OK" (but still net positive, it helped me get an internship and a job). Last year twitter became an incredibly positive thing in my life (in spite of the exodus and things generally getting a little worse). A lot of that change for me is echoed in this post! Every time I see people commenting on here saying "people still use that?" or "why would you do this to yourself" etc, I get it, I've been there, there's a lot of shit out there. But I stumbled on basically this path he describes (made a brand new account, stopped being self conscious, just started following interesting people and replying to interesting things) and I feel like it has supercharged my learning & connecting with cool people and maybe even "dark smoky rooms full of interesting people" (nothing smoky yet but getting there!)