Not true at all - stories ala Snapchat were not invented by users. Twitter was (but no longer) awesome by allowing folks to consume plain text with socially ag

Not true at all - stories ala Snapchat were not invented by users. Twitter was (but no longer) awesome by allowing folks to consume plain text with socially agreed upon meaning rather than features of the client. It's my feeling that instead of piling on more metadata into the posts, they could have done something more similar to RES on reddit, and expanded the text limit.