I’ll keep my Twitter account and use it just about as much as I ever have which is to say very very little. Ever since I met Dorsey at a small tech seminar almost two decades ago (before he started Twitter) and told him I thought his idea for a sms based pub-sub system was dumb, I still think it’s dumb. Not because it can’t be profitable but because nothing truly worth saying can really ever be dumbed down enough to fit in 140 characters. While the message length has grown and the tech has advanced that original sound-bite no thought ethos still permeates everything on the platform. It doesn’t matter who owns it, how long a tweet can be, or how you brand it, Twitter has never and will never be a place for reliable information, or honest public discussion. Twitter is not and has never been a public square. It is an advertising delivery mechanism masquerading as a public square.