I created my first Twitter account back in 2014 only because I had recently published an ebook, so felt obliged to establish my Social Media presence (without getting involved with Fakebook).
I see nothing in Twitter to get excited about. I have gotten very little worth out of Twitter in over 3 years of usage. I suspect a mild form of mental illness drives most users to the Twitter platform.
If you are a news reporter out on the road, with an Internet connected phone, then I can see Twitter offering some useful functionality. But for someone accessing it from a fixed place and a desktop computer, then Twitter becomes just another chapter in America's illusory and childlike influence over an unsuspecting world.
Let's all own up. Twitter is basically a complete waste of time. We all have far better things to do with our lives than to shout into a huge cave 5 times per day hoping there are millions of busy little ants (people) somewhere down there happy to listen.
I stayed away from Twitter for a long time until I realized the power it had for up to the second breaking news. That's Twitter's strength, however, the past few updates where Twitter took away the sequential timeline and introduced their algorithm on what they think is more important for me to know completely killed that aspect for me.
I still use it for news as it's still somewhat useful for this but that won't be enough to keep Twitter afloat. Individual users don't have a reason to post on there in comparison to the other platforms and because Twitter is now public, they need period over period growth or the money starts bleeding. I definitely see the writing on the wall that their days are numbered.