As an outsider looking in, Twitter is a harsh place that feels unwelcoming to say the least. I've had an account for years, but every time I try to engage in s

As an outsider looking in, Twitter is a harsh place that feels unwelcoming to say the least. I've had an account for years, but every time I try to engage in something on Twitter it just falls flat. The main criticism I have about the platform itself are: - hashtags too limited to meaningfully reach people, thereby making the platform all about knowing people already and then staying in your own circles. I'd appreciate ~5 tags to reference my posts independently of the 140 limit, and to better find others' posts. - too much spam, marketing BS and whatnot. I'm all for GaryVee's take on marketing and media etc., I really am, but Twitter seems to me like an ill-suited platform for that. When something's popular you don't interact, you just add your 'voice' to a long list of spammy comments. The place is impersonal and cold. Even Reddit is much better for 1 liners with its voting system. - bad engineering. Seriously, so many flaws. The mobile app is a buggy mess that crashes too often (on Android 8 it doesn't even work with 2FA, I had to deactivate it to re-log in, and why doesn't it work with usual authenticators?). Statistics pages are AWOL. I appreciate they made a night mode, I really really do, but it works worse than browser add-ons. I don't know how they manage to be both so popular and so bad. Overall Twitter feels very lonely and kind of useless, at least for everything that isn't already much better covered by Facebook (ie real contacts/circles). And I don't like Facebook much, but they do a much better job at their mission.