You helped build Twit­ter into the global plat­form it is today. You were the ones who saw some­thing mean­ing­ful in what oth­ers con­sid­ered stu­pid and super­flu­ous. You gave Twit­ter “at” replies and short links and hash­tags and every­thing else that made the 140 char­ac­ter limit just a lit­tle eas­ier to deal with. You were the true inno­va­tors — not them. But your ser­vices are no longer required. Please pack your things and go.

You’ve been replaced with imma­ture teenagers, attention-​​starved celebri­ties, “SEO nin­jas”, and com­pa­nies pre­tend­ing to build rela­tion­ships with their clien­tele when in real­ity, they’re sim­ply mak­ing it eas­ier to appease dis­sat­is­fied cus­tomers before bad word-​​of-​​mouth gets out of hand.

Twit­ter doesn’t want the nerds any­more. And the nerds are attempt­ing to move on. Which is where, not coin­ci­dently, I found the link to the arti­cle I’m quot­ing.