I use it as a learning tool. Twitter lets you create groups. I use it extensively. I group interesting people into those groups - say devops, tech, India etc. That helps me put into some context when I browse.

When I see an interesting articles, I push that to pocket. I read it later.

When I create something, I share. I engage with folks who ask questions.

I wrote abt it here: https://www.jjude.com/learn-via-twitter/

Happy to answer any question on this.

As a huge extrovert who's super into networking, my biggest reason for using Twitter is the ability to directly engage with people in a manner you usually don't find outside private communities.

I just treat it like a big cocktail party: Talk to everyone, jump into random conversations, and don't take it personally if nobody really pays attention to me sometimes.

I deleted my Twitter account years ago, it's too much of a distraction.

Following in Twitter is quite similar to following in Hashnode.

You follow public figures to get their tweets (status updates) in your feed.

or e.g. follow newspapers accounts to get news tweets in your feed ..etc.

People will follow you also to get your tweets.

you can mention someone in your tweet using the @ symbol same as in hashnode and facebook.

and also you can inbox someone with a personal message like in facebook

There is also hashtags ..

If you click on a hashtag it will open all the tweets that contain this hashtag, this is very useful when you want to know about a specific hashtag subject, you just click the hashtag to see what people are saying about this subject, you can also join the subject by putting the hashtag in your tweets

For me its more an information platform. I follow projects that I use for development, I follow people which build some cool stuff.

Personally, I post very rarely, that´s why I don´t care if somebody follows me or not.