I don&#x27;t see it so much as a tool as an <i>experience</i>. The twitter experience is almost always the same, which is why I got bored of it.<p>&gt; What my vague acquaintance had for breakfast<p>&gt; What my vague acquaintance had for breakfast<p>&gt; What my vague acquaintance thinks about politics, which I need to grit my teeth and not reply to.<p>&gt; Slightly amusing post from a well-known celebrity I follow, which someone will post on facebook later in the day anyway.<p>&gt; Slightly amusing post from a well-known celebrity I quite deliberately don&#x27;t follow, but which gets retweeted into my feed anyway.<p>&gt; A politician I am starting to regret following wants my money.<p>&gt; What some well-known celebrity I don&#x27;t follow had for breakfast<p>Tools do something useful. Twitter doesn&#x27;t -- at least, not for 95% of users.