This. I find twitter depressing, for reasons related to your first sentence, but it is also quite interesting for the same reasons. Plus, there's no quicker way to get a sense of what is going on in the collective consciousness, be it Heard-and-Depp or the latest news or propaganda.
As for the second, my partner loves such accounts and has turned me on to them - often PMing me all sorts of pictures of possums, goats, cats, etc. I recently discovered "Red Pandas Every Day" and my life is better for it.