@uncertainquark Twitter is poison. You can post something about the most pure and innocent subject matter and still the nastiness pours down. Such a shame. I think it’s a necessary evil in some careers, but my break from it (and FB) over the summer has made me a happier person.

@BenSouthwood I've been much happier too after stopping being active on most big social platforms, and automating the few like Twitter to share my posts so I don't have to manually care for it.

@uncertainquark Not posting and not replying has helped a great deal. I follow a few people via the RSS reader so that keeps me away from the app.

@pratik Same. The few accounts I need to follow because of my profession I do so in Feedbin, which anyway is a superior way to read tweets.

@uncertainquark I think that’s the key. It’s brilliant for gaining and maintaining an audience, but for a social-network the ‘social side’ of it is just grubby.