I understand why most people use Twitter, but I never could identify with it. Back around ~2017 I made an account, but my preconceptions of the platform were i

I understand why most people use Twitter, but I never could identify with it. Back around ~2017 I made an account, but my preconceptions of the platform were immediately reinforced. Even if I followed people I thought I'd be interested in, Twitter just doesn't seem to be conducive to the kind of material I appreciate, as opposed to the digital finger pointing and one liners. Shortly after I made that account, I decided to do an experiment to see how quickly I could gather followers, even though I had next to no tweets. All I did was click through random accounts and followed them. Surprisingly, many of them followed me back. It only took me a few days of clicking around to get a few hundred followers. If I had kept it up, could I have amassed thousands? I stopped that experiment quickly because I didn't really care. It told me everything I needed to know, and I had no motivation to go back. Its continued relevance is a bit depressing, IMO. It's hard for me to imagine that the average person actually gets more out of it than they put in, despite how clearly it can be beneficial for certain individuals and circumstances (as can be said of nearly anything). Overall, my impression of Twitter is that it is largely composed of negativity and snark, and the way it works seems to create more collectivism and mass social illness. If Twitter went belly-up, maybe I'd be kind of happy about it?