This week, I deleted the former twitter app off my phone .
I used to use it to catch up on activities people I know had written about. I occasionally tweeted about my own work. I liked to discover work by artists I didn’t know , find out about exhibitions that were on and also read the opinions of rational people about various news topics.
It used to be quite good for news .
How it changed though.
I noticed I was seeing less and less of people I followed and my own tweets were getting barely a handful of views .
Instead, I was seeing comment after comment from truly awful people I didn’t know or follow. The whole platform was riddled with hate and the actual owner of the site itself was revelling in it.
Enough. After so many years I just had to go.
