How to get your news fix now that Twitter sucks

Bye. | Illustration by Alex Castro

A few weeks ago, I deleted Twitter from my phone and tablet. This was a long time coming, and the reasons I chose to do it are obvious, so I'm not here to write an essay about why I did. Instead, I'm here to provide some tips if you, like me, used to rely on Twitter for staying on top of news and events and don't want to use Twitter to do so anymore.

I used a lot of the tools here before I deleted Twitter, but they've become more useful and prominent in my screen time calculations without Twitter around. (And no, deleting Twitter did not reduce my screen time, sadly.) Some of them may be obvious and some of them may be new to you, but here's what I'm doing to keep up with both general news and topics I'm interested in specifically.

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