Why are you considering "gain a following" to be the purpose of using Twitter? I use it to collect people I follow, post some snarky tweets that amuse myself a

Why are you considering "gain a following" to be the purpose of using Twitter? I use it to collect people I follow, post some snarky tweets that amuse myself and my wife, and occasionally interact with people I normally wouldn't otherwise. In that regard, it's successful. For the people you're following, it's massively successful as a platform of promotion. I'm constantly looking to the people I follow for their takes on current events, and I love how unfiltered/direct it is, given the length restriction. If I like someone consistently, I'll seek them out on other, probably more-profitable for them, platforms. If Twitter depresses you, I think then life is probably generally depressing; there's nothing uniquely "useless" or "meaningless" about Twitter, no more so than posting this comment on HN or literally anything else that's to be swallowed by our sun going supernova in a few billion years...