For example, I deleted my account a month or so ago after discovering that the CEO of a popular cloud database company that I admired was following an account who posted almost exclusively things along the lines of "blacks are all subhuman and should be killed."
It seems like you're better off knowing that. Without Twitter, you wouldn't, right?
A venue that allows people to tell you who they really are isn't an unalloyed Bad Thing.
That's a good way of thinking about it, thank you, legitimately.