You have to be very careful that your data sources aren’t just an echo chamber. This applies to life as much as Twitter but you see it hugely magnified on Twitter. When I first started on Twitter it was purely for work and betting purposes. I would follow golfers, caddies, journalists, official sites, scoring sites you name it where I thought some interesting information would be garnered. To that I added all the interesting betting people/bookmakers, tipsters who might move markets etc. I would do this for all the sports I was betting on at the time. I then expanded into other subjects such as golf, crypto and then things like fitness. I deliberately made a point of following very few football accounts unless they were really beneficial.
More than a 1000 accounts followed later you end up in an odd situation. For fitness and crypto in particular you end up with a very weird situation that you have to be careful of. Lets take fitness. Most of the posters are young and in their early 20s. You get this situation where everyone tells each other how amazing they are, how everyone needs to be positive, how its amazing to see everyone so successful, giving life advice (gtfoh),etc etc. If it was all you listened to you would think the world an incredible place. It is so far detached from reality it is untrue. The same happens in crypto where everyone is shilling something/justifying the bags that they have. I have found recently it has started to invade upon the betting accounts I follow.
If there is a popular winner then all I see on my timeline is it littered with people patting each other on the backs about a great job. It might be because there are so many more tipsters out there but it feels utterly unrelenting.
You would think you are a moron with all these people out there having so much success. You never see a balanced view on what is happening out there in the real world. It must relate to the way the algorithms are designed on Twitter that it happens like this.
You see it massively with Politics. You have to realise that if you are pro Brexit and the accounts you follow are all pro Brexit then that is all you will keep seeing on your timeline. It will just re-enforce your beliefs.
It is incredibly difficult to do but you have to try and keep as balanced a set of twitter followers as you can. You may not like what they all say but you have to try and avoid echo chambers. I even follow Piers Morgan for this reason.
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