> Never saw Twitter as idealistic. Seems to just want to show you celebrity gossip. Substantially worse product ... That may have been late stage Twitter, but

> Never saw Twitter as idealistic. Seems to just want to show you celebrity gossip. Substantially worse product ... That may have been late stage Twitter, but early stage twitter was _not_ that. It became _the_ (only) way to be able to get near real-time information on some unfolding event, usually by the people actually involved, and very useful in that regard. It facilitated realtime communications in a way that FB did not.