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Here's the thing: there is no going back to a different era of Twitter. This doesn't replace it, Threads doesn't replace it, Twitter doesn't replace it. That era is dead, no return, it was a very fun 5-10 year window or so that dragged on past its prime until it dropped off a cliff.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

maybe im doing it wrong but i feel like the various crises of 2026 have revealed the limitations of this platform for me. twitter was always invaluable to me in chaotic times bc you had a lot of subj matter expert weirdos coming out of the woodwork. just dont feel like there's a much of that here rn

yeah i think about this when people will talk about annoying replies here and it's just like, yeah i think that you just can't have a widely used social media platform that doesn't lead to being annoyed a lot anymore!

I literally didn't use Twitter, like at all, because I thought the replies were so annoying. All throughout my 20s, I used Reddit, which is also annoying! Nostalgia-tinted glasses blind us to the most obvious of facts.