Perhaps the matter at hand is an accessibility issue. What I won’t pay for is an app that has no common sense, one that doesn’t work toward a collective end. I also have no problem paying for apps I fully believe people should support the communities they contribute to. I’m just less interested in being everywhere these days. It’s not that I consider myself too old for social media, or the pace and attention it requires. In time, we used social media to remake civic life. Friendster, Blogger, Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook were where we found community, honed our creative urges, and secured careers. We signed up en masse because what we sought in the next frontier of adulthood, we slowly realized, was being actualized online. We were raised on a diet of chatrooms and Myspace. Maybe this is where my hesitation takes root, and why it feels like there are no good apps left for socializing the way we used to. Millennials are the last of the analog world, both of yesterday and tomorrow, the bridge between what was and what will be. Millennials are the last of the analog world, both of yesterday and tomorrow. There is a void in the social media universe that, until now, Twitter singularly occupied. It has now been a year since Elon Musk assumed control of Twitter, and in what felt like record time, he has taken a sledgehammer to everything that gave the platform its unique draw (issues of safety and inclusion were a problem under former CEO Jack Dorsey but have significantly worsened).

Twitter refashioned the look of communication through a vernacular of memes and GIFs, where resident collectives like Black Twitter and NBA Twitter excelled as virtuosos of the form. There is no #MeToo without Twitter, nor the beginnings of a racial reckoning in Hollywood.

It was the avenue of the Black Lives Matter movement, a megaphone for everyday users, and, through a wave of history-setting and history-unsettling US elections, transformed culture into a 24/7 participatory event. I've spent an unhealthy amount of time on the platform over the last decade. Influence is one attribute Twitter never lacked, as evidenced by the mad dash in Silicon Valley to fill the gulf its collapse is leaving.

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