Re: Why do companies think we care what anyone else is doing?
This mostly tells me that you REALLY don't remember how Twitter started. Maybe you mean Instagram...
(Clue: Twitter started as an SMS service, hence the character limit. It was quite useful for sending "which pub are we going to tonight?" messages to groups of friends, back in those halcyon days. You couldn't even post/view a photo on Twitter without buggering about with image hosting sites and URL shorteners until about 5 years after it launched.)