Hang on, wasn&#x27;t it a couple of years ago that people were talking about &quot;Twitter revolutions&quot; in the Middle East? Tahrir Square and all that?<p>Someone posted a &quot;show a completely random tweet&quot; page the last time this came up, and I noticed that few of the ones I saw were in English and quite a few in Arabic.<p>Twitter isn&#x27;t the best tool for family-and-friends; Facebook has that use case covered. But trying to turn Twitter into FB will destroy its usefulness for all the people who want it because it&#x27;s <i>not</i> like FB. Twitter is best for the question &quot;what&#x27;s going on in the world <i>now</i>?&quot;