I still don't know why Twitter is a thing in the first place. I guess it has never been as successful as the other social media companies. I used it briefly y

I still don't know why Twitter is a thing in the first place. I guess it has never been as successful as the other social media companies. I used it briefly years ago. I found it was good for only two things. 1) very fast eye witness reports for something I cared about before mainstream media covered it. This wasn't a huge use case. 2) publicly complaining about customer service for a company, getting a quicker resolution than if you didn't publicly complain. I never found a set of people whose tweets were interesting enough to be worthwhile. I think the issue is tweets themselves. The short message format just isn't long enough to say anything interesting for the most part. Don't get me started on longer messages split up into lots of separate tweets. Ughh.