I've never even had an account. I think peopel who were online and avid surfers never needed a twitter. Community forums were ubiquitous and so were chats even back then (before SM, in 90's and 00's). The format was basically realtime or long form posts. Twitter became the platform for normal people that used to be the ones making fun of nerds for using trhe computer too much. Now everyone is online, and those character limitations have really destroyed the flow of conversations online. There is no need for that limiting format, tweeting an essay via 20 tweets is silly! We need to go back to community forums and realtime chats but now with some features like following users, which was not a feature back then.