Twitter Is Back on My Phone
It’s because I created a worse problem by removing Twitter. My desire for news and information didn’t die when I took Twitter away, and I began using the Apple News app. This turned out to be a horrible idea because no matter how much I tried to curate and tell Apple News what I wanted to see, it filled my “You” tab with mainstream headlines of death and disaster. The unfortunate reality of a news aggregator is that by the time you cover every tragedy in the last 24 hours, there’s no room for anything else.
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Google Now's stories section works surprisingly well for me. For some reason, it insists on showing me news about Kendall Jenner, but apart from that, it does a good job showing me stuff I'm interested in, and focusing on relevant stories, instead of inundating me with a brain-numbing stream of statistically rare, effectively irrelevant news of bloody murder and salacious mayhem.
