Say what you want about Twitter, but as someone who's been on it since 2011 and has made it my primary platform for social media since 2016, I'm grateful that f

Say what you want about Twitter, but as someone who's been on it since 2011 and has made it my primary platform for social media since 2016, I'm grateful that fundamentally it's still the same old Twitter. Yes, they've fallen into the copy-cat temptation machine in some regards – i.e. "fleets" (stories) – but unlike Instagram will at least admit when it's not working and revert (fleets are no longer a feature on the platform). Of course, their failure to innovate definitely cost them TikTok-level success with their mismanagement of both Vine and Periscope, but at least their stubbornness to change has kept the core experience intact. Obviously there's some larger issues around Twitter's direction ("who is going to be in control of the company?") and the ever-present critiques of misinformation/harassment/"moderation versus censorship" that comes with the territory of being a public forum, but overall it's still the Twitter I know. I wonder if instagram's downfall will be a boon for Twitter in this regard: at least I know what it is.