But that's just social media in general. Doesn't mean it can't be valuable.
> Twitter didn't really grow from being a solution to anything - it grew from being unique at the dawn of social media. So it is kind of its own thing.
This doesn't mean that something better can't be made. Lots of people clearly don't want to support X anymore, whether for political reasons or for UX reasons. I don't see why "a better Twitter" is somehow not possible because it wouldn't "solve a problem". Why can't the "problem" be that X sucks ass but there isn't a good alternative?
I'm not saying it has no value, nor denying that people find uses for it. I'm saying that without an external problem being solved, building a competitor doesn't answer the original question of... why does this need to exist at all?
It also had the feature that celebrities might respond to you. It was a way to get news directly from journalists. It had its network effect and took off.