An interesting thing about twitter is that it makes people feel as though they can make a bald pronouncement and that that bald pronouncement will hold true for all time. This is why art, novels and poems, are more interesting than twitter. It's strange to see artists making these bald pronouncements when they know better: everything is fleeting - there is nothing you can say about reality, or even society, that will hold true, or won't change with degree, over time. 

For instance, there is a general idea of "health and nutrition" that exists, but twitter hardens that idea into "a perfect diet" championed by however many people, various diets championed as perfect. This doesn't exist. There is no such thing as a perfect diet in reality. There's only intelligent food choices and stupid food choices (with variation, depending on the person, allergies, etc). 

The likable thing about twitter is that you can share things on it. FB can do this too. I imagine instagram can. What I don't understand is why the corporate ownership is necessary. Why are people making content for twitter? 

The unlikeable thing that twitter can do is make it easy to 1) gather the info you want without making you actually learn anything, 2) seemingly "authorize" that material, meaning twitter itself seems to make whatever material "credible" and coming from an "authority," which then makes the user feel like an authority, when they're not, which leads to 3) people only conspiring with other people on twitter who think in the almost exact same way that they think, who they deem to be other authorities, basically, which leads to 4) a country being extremely divided rather than only pretty much divided, which means 5) twitter has hardened the lines of division because it allows people to make bland pronouncements that are seemingly true but that will inevitably change, thus making people believe that there are exact certainties in the world to hold onto when there are none, and that they are the purveyors of these exact certainties. twitter hardens ideas and opinions into what people feel are facts but are not, which leads people to feel like authorities, when they are not. 

The only thing "true" about this post is that, while a bald pronouncement about twitter, it takes into account that twitter could change: it doesn't have to be this way. Though I see no other way for it to be.