[this_user]

I am not sure I would call what happens on Twitter discussions. It's a great platform for posting things that are easily misunderstood or taken out of context due to their brevity. Then someone starts a witch-hunt, which in turn sparks a counter-witch-hunt. In the end no one is any wiser, but everyone is little more bitter.

I think the appeal of Twitter is feeling "in the loop" due to the real-time nature of the service. But in reality most of the content is just meaningless noise. It's hard to find any signal on that platform.

[hsod]

Twitter is a huge, huge place and your conclusions are massively over-generalized. There's lots and lots of good stuff: analysis of news stories, humor, statistics, low-level or amateur reporting. Covering tons of niches: sports, politics, music, "Black Twitter".

It's true that it's a poor platform for adversarial conversation or debate, but that's no reason to dismiss the whole thing.

I've been on Twitter for seven years and in that time I've curated a timeline which is, bar none, the most entertaining and informative web destination available to me, specifically tailored to my interests and disposition.

[the_watcher]

Plenty of what you mention is true and is a major problem with Twitter. That said, there remain some vibrant, niche Twitter communities where discussions do take place (the NBA comes to mind immediately)

[remarkEon]

Minor League Baseball as well. Speculation about scouting reports, and potential call-ups is really fun. I'm a huge baseball fan (as I imagine many here might be), and this kind of thing is just not talked about on SportsCenter and it adds a human element to The Game. Concur about the NBA. NBA-Twitter is awesome.