Having been on Twitter, I would say that you're avoiding more unpleasantness than you are missing out on good stuff. Don't get me wrong; it's nice to follow people I respect and/or like and getting to say something to them every now and then and to see your tweets getting a lot of likes from people who agree with you....but good lord, there are SO many assholes...

Without looking, I imagine that the replies to Blinken's tweet would be mixed, but probably more people agreeing with him than not. You'd have people quote-tweeting him like "Here's what Blinken just said as he was complicit in the persecution of Julian Assange, what a sack of shit..." but I'm not counting those.

When I was still active on Twitter, I would usually quote-tweet something like that instead of replying (although the operator of the account sees both if they bother to check the various responses, or "mentions"). That's because replying to his tweet with "What about Assange, asshole?" right under it would invite all of the shitlibs who follow Blinken because they actually *like* him to verbally dogpile on me. I might have some others in the replies agreeing with me, but I learned long ago that trying to argue with half a dozen people simultaneously, or more than that, wastes a lot of time and emotional energy better spent elsewhere.