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Re:Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam by noitsnot on Sunday May 26, 2019 @02:29PM (#20016538)
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I don't have time to find and filter out decent followers. I signed up back in 2005 and couldn't tell you when it wasn't a cesspool for awful posts and comments.
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Re:Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam by EForEndeavour on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:37PM (#20017344)
It depends on how you use Twitter.

Using it to keep up with politics or news can quickly lead you to some of the most highly concentrated cesspools of humanity's worst thoughts. There will be abject ignorance or just plain noise among the top replies to pretty much any tweet by The Economist, the New York Times, Barack Obama (actually any politician), ...

However, I've found it healthy and helpful to tap into active communities built around certain computer science topics, like machine learning, or "ML Twitter."

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Re:Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam by tomjakubowski on Sunday May 26, 2019 @06:26PM (#20017964)
Twitter didn't launch until 2006, I thought. —an '07
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Re:Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam by noitsnot on Sunday May 26, 2019 @07:31PM (#20018287)
You're right. I verified what my profile displays, so I can correct my signup date as 2008. 10+ years isn't too shabby, though.
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