For the early days of the social web, Dorsey was a prolific poster. And while his personality came out more in his LiveJournal posts, he felt like he needed something more. On both platforms, a user needed so much intention to post—drafting sentences and paragraphs of a blog or uploading and editing images from their digital cameras—before publishing. There needed to be something quicker, more stream-of-consciousness, where someone could post and share effortlessly and instantly without much thought.
God forbid people have to think a little before they post something to the Internet. Twitter was a cancer from its first conception.
