I recently created a Twitter account after ignoring the platform for years. I'm pretty well known and have had several significant presences online, but I didn'

I recently created a Twitter account after ignoring the platform for years. I'm pretty well known and have had several significant presences online, but I didn't try to leverage any of that and wanted to see if the network had matured to the point that it is decaying (where it is just cemented into a core). I commented on various tweets. Left thoughtful tweets of my own on a variety of topics. Zero political tweets, but rather participated in the tech sphere including some niche realms. Zero engagement after months. I realized later that some of my comments were hidden under "see more" for other users -- even where I added a helpful comment to a person who themselves had double-digit followers, and where there were only a tiny handful of other comments. My tweets would get hundreds of views (maybe all scrapers), but no one is going to be the first to like some comment by some tiny account with a handful of "followers". So it sits there in Pathetic Valley. It's the curse of social networks. They get their long tail cemented in and pretty soon it's better for everyone else to wait for it to die and join something new. I deleted my twitter account and moved on. When Twitter's replacement comes along I'll get in on day one, copy some jokes some other people make and leave trite cynical comments and by month 2 I'll be a superstar. I feel like Instagram might be taking a stab at dealing with that, rather than some concern over mental health. When everyone new faces Pathetic Valley (unless they're going to buy followers, or go on a desperate campaign outside of the platform to foment engagement), it's the inevitable decline of the platform.