Twitter distorts your views of others. In 2023 we showed that when people express outrage on Twitter, those who read their tweets think they’re more outraged than they actually are www.crockettlab.org/s/2023-Nat-H...

Twitter trains you to create more outrageous content. From 2018-2021 my team developed a tool to measure outrage on Twitter. Here's our paper showing that “likes” and “shares” teach people to express more outrage over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Twitter amplifies outrage. Here’s a paper from 2017 describing how social media’s affordances make it easier to express outrage, with some evidence that people are exposed to far more outrageous events online than off. www.crockettlab.org/s/Crockett_2...

Main takeaways: Twitter makes money by keeping you online, and a reliable way to do that is to make you outraged and train you to create content that makes others outraged. As a result, we misperceive one another and spread misinformation. This is bad for democracy.