This article is a bit annoying because it’s simultaneously a review of how Twitter was so important to journalists and politicians and how that they basically developed how Twitter grew (dysfunctionally), but also misses the point that a ton of journalists weren’t really delivering great news from it when they were using it.

How many stories over the years have just been a collection of tweets strung together by a few poorly written lines of editorializing? What “stories” were basically just prompted because some famous person tweeted something about a topic or person?

Twitter became a crutch for journalists to use in the absence of real research and reporting and I hope journalists will not find an alternative when it finally dies.

I finally deleted my account last week. The only thing I really miss from Twitter is the “loud noise over New York” example in the article - being able to look up something happening right now and see what people are saying about it.