The Horse's Mouth

I absolutely love Twitter now that I've started using it. What I especially like is that you can find experts and follow their tweets which are, from necessity, short and to the point and, because they're generally not known by the hoi polloi, you don't get stupid comments. You can get science, for example, straight from the horse's mouth, rather than it being selectively filtered through the media - and filtered it most certainly is.

Yes, you get the usual verbal graffiti from the odd moron, but nowhere near as much as on Facebook, where most of the argument takes place on media news sites about the accuracy of the news itself, which is invariably filtered by an agenda.

I follow people like virologists, epidemiologists and mathematical modellers, eminent historians, key journalists, the odd comedian (Mark Gatiss, Bill Bailey, David Baddiel, etc.), James O'Brien, Michio Kaku, Mark Kermode, Martin Lewis, The Secret Barrister, Joylon Maugham (The Good Law Project), campaigners (Greta, Gina Miller, etc.) and Dom Cummings - the latter is merely pick over his ramblings, there being the odd gem here and there, but it's mostly execrably written.

I'm seriously thinking for coming off Facebook, with the exception of using it for posting this blog.