I liked playing with Twitter in 2009 or 2010. It was almost completely text based and it displayed timelines in a straight forward manner. But then they starte

I liked playing with Twitter in 2009 or 2010. It was almost completely text based and it displayed timelines in a straight forward manner. But then they started to mess with it: link shortners, inline multimedia, the war on 3rd party Twitter clients, pinned tweets, and an annoying amount of options. I personally don't think Twitter can be saved, long term.