The first time I ever understood the purpose of Twitter was when someone, a year or two ago, explained to me that Twitter's original intent was to provide a way

The first time I ever understood the purpose of Twitter was when someone, a year or two ago, explained to me that Twitter's original intent was to provide a way to group-text friends, since smart phones at the time had no good way of accomplishing that. Suddenly I "got" Twitter. In terms of what Twitter is used for by everyone these days ... I don't get it. Every time I've created an account and tried to "get into it" I ended up getting bored and never returning. Someone somewhere must find some kind of a use for it since it's still a thing. But I just can't figure out for the life of me what that use is. When people explain that they use it to follow people/pages they like or keep up with the news I keep finding myself using better tools (for me) to do those things. I guess I'm out of touch but I can't figure out for the life of me what problem exists that Twitter actually solves. Then again, I really don't use a smart phone at all either so maybe that explains the disconnect. Now get off my lawn.