Most of my friends actually use it as a async, direct and realtime communications channel, pretty much like Whatsapp, just with more &quot;social integration&quot; (read: the whole internet).<p>They don&#x27;t use Facebook because its algorithmic &quot;timeline&quot; isn&#x27;t realtime in any sense of the word and they consider themselves more than capable enough to decide on their own what&#x27;s worth their time or not, they don&#x27;t want to be fed things &#x2F; advertisments somebody else wants them to see.<p>They&#x27;ll probably all switch to the next best thing available once Twitter&#x27;s rumoured algorithmic timeline is to be introduced.<p>Personally, I left the whole Twittersphere way back when the alienated their third party devs, for me that was more than enough indication of the way they were heading. Nowadays they have nobody left who could actually come up with the Next Big Thing (tm) for Twitter, because all of their engineers are mostlikely busy trying to figure out how to commercialize the platform in the shortest amount of time in order to satisfy their shareholders.