I can’t stand so many things about the twitter style of social media.

• Based around following people: not communities or topics. If I follow a person, I have to see all of their posts no matter how unimportant to me it is. I might like a person’s input on star trek, I really don’t care if they’re drinking their second red bull that morning.
• There are tags, but no voting, no sorting, and no moderation, so they’re mostly garbage.
• No way to see what’s popular: or sorting based on voting whatsoever. Updates stream in, which means you can’t subscribe to more than a few people unless you want your entire day to be gone.
• Length-limited content emphasizes gotcha soundbytes, and not discussion.
• No tree-based commenting: meaning I have to click into a lot of threads just to see replies.