Twitter was orignally Twittr. It was a pivot from a podcasting company that didn't get any traction. When it launched it didn't have retweets.<p>TechCrunch's article from 2006 on Twittr is interesting: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/</a>
I'm not a twitter user, but in my view if you want to publish an opinion you might as well to put it in your blog. And when nobody reads it, make a conclusion on whether you should continue that habit or not.<p>If you want to reach out to people, better use email? Or if you wan to chat with people, use IRC, discord, whatsapp, telegram or something.