Maeve Higgins: I’ve had the last laugh as I shut Twitter’s door on my way out

I could ask questions, make comments, promote my work, connect to people and generally exercise my free speech. That felt valuable to me. But that feeling is gone now.

The influence of Twitter is difficult to measure but undeniable.

Perhaps you never used Twitter. If so, I envy you. Also, you’re in the majority, the vast majority.

Of the 8bn of us here on the planet, just an estimated high of 400 million people ever had a Twitter account. A small proportion used the platform a lot, and its creators could never quite figure out how to monetise its users.