Also the irony of saying HN is an echo chamber, when the primary content on my Twitter feed are retweets. Twitter is useless to me as a communicator, as someone that thrives on discussions and not abbreviated tidbits. Despite following only people I trust and admire, my feed is garbage. The single time I had a lengthy direct message conversation, it was a mess and a pain to have to add "..." to the end of each and then write the next message fast enough so that next person doesn't respond without all of the information. It really couldn't be a worse place to try to have serious conversations.