Twitter’s real value was its “global RSS” nature. You could get short, quick updates about local news, published papers, sports events, political happenings, and more.

It made it easy to source info from your followers (or their followers) quickly. Think Ask HN but broader.

Activity on Twitter is down now, mastodon and threads aren’t cutting it. There’s more activity on LinkedIn but it’s quite phoney.

I genuinely feel that Twitter provided me with useful information from people of interest.