About 10 years ago, Twitter used to be a good social media platform where you could just about tweet about anything without the risk of abuse. However, roll forwards to 2016, and things started to change rather significantly and it has continued to get worse and worse.

It has become a platform whereby abuse has become mainstream and conducted by anyone against anybody for any reason. Then there are the troll farms which are created by organizations or even governments to spread information, true or not, and try to sway people when it comes to political discussions. These trolls or bots are usually identifiable as they will have around 8 numbers after their name.

Twitter becomes an exercise of locking down your account for a couple of weeks due to the volume of abuse. The abuse is organized as it results in a huge pile on attacks by dozens or hundreds of people with nothing else better to do in their lives.

I think the abuse has reached a level where Twitter cannot really do anything about it. A British politician had brought up this matter within a bill proposed to the House of Commons, and then it later transpired that this politician was sending people defamatory accusations and abuse. The problem is endemic.

If you do not have a Twitter account, for the love of God, do not sign up. It will wear you down emotionally in the long run.