Always was.
It's why I found it so dismaying when we went through years of apparently serious newspapers reporting on every twitter-storm as if it was important. Yes, it was a good if unreliable source of breaking news, but the general noise of people fighting back and forwards about whatever it was that week ... was just noise, among a relatively small group of motivated crazies. Using it as a societal barometer just results in skewed coverage and an emphasis on American social issues that aren't necessarily as relevant everywhere else.
It's shockingly common for people to cite Twitter and Bluesky posts as evidence of what the average American of political party X or Y believes. I do not understand how they came to be so deluded.
Usually those people are literally quoting representatives of those parties. They are, wait for it, representative of their respective parties.
I don't need to go find loonies. I can get on Twitter or Truth Social and get it from the horse's mouth.
yep thats why these platforms are so toxic. bunch of lunatics locked in an asylum together.