Twitter started as a micro blogging platform that allowed people to easily post from their phone.
The ease of use was meant to capture new bloggers while the brevity of the posts allowed for posting of ideas that often didn’t pertain to blogs with opinionated content.
Overtime Twitter became a platform for amplifying ones voice as people found it easy to go to one site and scroll endlessly through links and text algorithmically chosen to appeal to their taste.
Privately owned and abiding by Terms of Service set for by the investors who sought only personal gain, Twitter was not, and never will be, the “internet’s town square”.
The internet’s town square should never have been one specific website with its own specific rules and incentives. It should have been, and should be, the web itself.
Having one entity own and police that square could only deform the worldwide conversation, to disastrous ends, even with the smartest and most humane people at work.
Brent Simmons @ Inessential.com
Your words will never be free as long as you rely on someone else to publish them for you. I encourage you to publish your thoughts and your ideas yourself.
Share your ideas with others through the mechanisms that we created long ago like RSS and ATOM feeds.
You can read the ideas and thoughts of others in an RSS reader. There are many. Some are low price or free. Some are cloud based. Some run on your desktop. Some sync between the two. That’s how mine works. Odds are your email client or your website publishing system has one built in also.
Quote and share the ideas and thoughts of others on your site to build conversation, build upon a point, and to further conversation.
Domain names are inexpensive and easy to come by. Many web hosts will install WordPress for free and let you purchase your domain name (or get a free one) at the same time. WordPress is super easy to use and can be used through any browser or one of their clients.
There is no limit or minimum to how long or short your posts have to be. There is no rule requiring you to stay on topic. Post about whatever you want. Share photos. Share video.
Stop looking for a new Twitter. You already have what you need.