I've never had a Twitter account, but I vaguely remember way back when it came out, that people were able to get tweets as SMS messages (IIRC, smart phones were

I've never had a Twitter account, but I vaguely remember way back when it came out, that people were able to get tweets as SMS messages (IIRC, smart phones were already popular, but maybe not 100% saturation like now, or maybe internet data was still spotty/expensive). That actually seems like a reasonable way to use it as a broadcasting channel. Too bad all of these social media sites are in a race to the bottom for most hostile user experience...