> which was the only way laypeople heard anything a famous person ever said (that or tabloid gossip "overheard"s). I get that twitter main usage is this, but y

> which was the only way laypeople heard anything a famous person ever said (that or tabloid gossip "overheard"s). I get that twitter main usage is this, but you can accomplish that with literally any social media/personal website. What twitter really facilitates is seeing feeds from random people and famous people responses to other (famous or not) people.