Welcome! Nice job on your introduction. I suspect your perspective on Twitter will change the longer you are here on Steemit. After a month here on Steemit, for me Twitter has become a trivial pursuit with some useful links and a lot of snark.

If you like photography, Steemit is great.

Yes the monitization is a nice by product, but so far the friendly vibe and content is what attracts me to Steemit.

If you want to keep track of how we are doing as a platform, I suggest following Hive account@penguinpablo who does a daily steem stats report:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@penguinpablo/daily-steem-stats-report-july-20-2017

Steem on and happy trails! Hive account@roused