I just use my Twitter follows as a set of self-updating bookmarks and launch points into the websites of news outlets to which I subscribe and to some media-analysis sites or journalism reviews.
As for ads, I just scroll past them the same as I scroll past tweets that land in my timeline from Twitter's annoying algorithm that includes tweets "liked" by accounts I follow. So I don't really see or mind them, there aren't that many anyway.
During election seasons I do end up following more accounts, usually just reporters but sometimes other members of the Twitter community whose closer following of politics and related tweets I find interesting. But as the election approaches I start to whittle all that down again and my list of follows becomes more like just bookmarks again.
Bottom line I'm not likely to become a paying subscriber to Twitter for such a limited interest in its overall content. I can revert to using email briefings and newsletters as launch points into my online news subscriptions...
As for ads, I just scroll past them the same as I scroll past tweets that land in my timeline from Twitter's annoying algorithm that includes tweets "liked" by accounts I follow. So I don't really see or mind them, there aren't that many anyway.
During election seasons I do end up following more accounts, usually just reporters but sometimes other members of the Twitter community whose closer following of politics and related tweets I find interesting. But as the election approaches I start to whittle all that down again and my list of follows becomes more like just bookmarks again.
Bottom line I'm not likely to become a paying subscriber to Twitter for such a limited interest in its overall content. I can revert to using email briefings and newsletters as launch points into my online news subscriptions...
