There was a (brief) period of time many years ago when Twitter was more friendly to developers; that is what I was referring to. What followed was a series of

There was a (brief) period of time many years ago when Twitter was more friendly to developers; that is what I was referring to. What followed was a series of terribly bad decisions to turn it into a marketing platform, rather than what it what it was organically becoming, which was a real-time market research tool + analytics API. As a result of bad direction and big ego, today it is just an extremely noisy, mostly irrelevant, echo chamber.