I did the twets for over a year. Eventually I found "weird twitter", which was a bunch of people making jokes, sharing content and ideas, getting in very NSFW rap battles with the Cap'n Crunch corporate account, trolling lots of corporate accounts, and getting their tweets stolen by huge accounts run by assholes. That last part sucks. It was a constant stream of creative people getting their ideas taken, which I hear is still rampant. I did, however, get a kick out of getting a few hundred strangers to follow my account based on my attempt at writing funny tweets. It was also fun to get retweeted by comedians I like, or journalists, etc. I got in a few pretty ridiculous arguments with Chuck Woolery, who is a crazy person that will engage anyone.

Most of twitter, however, is garbage. Corporate accounts, celebrities buying fake followers, "follow back" people that are only there to aggregate followers to monetize their accounts, which often feature stolen content themselves. Rampant fake celebrity accounts. Then again, why would you follow someone that doesn't write interesting or funny things? News aside, it's just a bizarre shit storm of celebs with nothing to say, and a sea of desperate sycophants that just want any kind of reply or acknowledgment from some person they don't even know, whose account is probably run by an assistant, or is simply totally fake. Oh, and the hashtags? It was obvious they were manipulated, and mostly the only people using them were the worst. Almost no one I followed ever used a hashtag.

Anyway, it was fun meeting like-minded people, and a really cool writing exercise, but the corporate bullshit, thievery, and weird sycophantic dynamic was enough to make me quit.