I’ve pretty much given up on X (formerly known as Twitter). Fewer of the messages I saw were from people I know or am interested in. That was balanced by an increasing level of messages that were not just junk but brain-rotting sewage. It was the equivalent of going into a newsagents and find that contents formerly relegated to a dodgy corner of a high shelf were all over the place, even mingling with the children’s comics.

I had been accessing X on my iPad. A while ago, I put it off the main screen and then turned off notifications. Last month, I decided to delete the app entirely and I haven’t missed it. The poor little blue bird died a long time ago and I’d now count myself as an ex-X user.