When browsing Twitter it certainly is. I think it's a terrible form to engage in politics.

That is demonstrably false—tweets about, say, programming language theory are pretty far from politics.

Have you seen the arguments about progamming language design here on HN?

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Its not apolitical, just pettier politics

An example given upthread was wanting to follow an account which tweeted interesting facts about medieval history, and being uninterested in seeing the same tweeter's thoughts about current US politics.

The sense in which people flame each other on HN about programming language opinions can be described as 'political', but it's also not directly related to e.g. current US politics.

Exactly, my point wasn't some hashtag filter. But some new checkmark that this may be political [or controversial or start a flamewar] etc.

Sometimes people like starting one with warning, I see it all the time. I don't see how Twitter can't create a simple filter like that.

I could go through all my tweets and instantly choose which category it goes in.