New Delhi, March 21 -- Good day to those and only those who still call it Twitter.

For someone who wasn't online in the 2010s, that would sound like a message on a housing society WhatsApp group.

Social media netizens today are all tagged and labelled-influencers (mega, mid, nano, max, ProMax.), their fan clubs, hardliners on the left, centrists, or right-wingers, and in between it all, us common folks just trying to research how to sleep better.

When Twitter (now X) emerged, it was a social network that enabled you to connect with complete strangers in a wholesome way. Back then, we had Facebook for folks you knew, Orkut (RIP) for its large slam books, LinkedIn minus the bros, and blogging sites like Tumblr. Twitter launched in 2006 a...