I joined twitter about two years ago because someone in my Democratic group said she had 30,000 followers and it was a good way to get out the Democratic message. I don’t know how you acquire followers and I have yet to acquire any.
The only useful thing about twitter for me is that I can open posts that I see and read the replies. Most (maybe all) of what I have seen from twitter is here, on Daily Kos. Sometimes I copy and paste what I see on these posts to my facebook page, where I do have followers.
If the Daily Kos community is recommending that we close our twitter accounts, it would be good if diarists stop posting twitter posts in their diaries, because if we close our accounts, we aren’t going to be able to read them. Or if you must repost a twitter post, please include a non-twitter description.