The difference here is that Twitter had been going downhill for a while before the recent changes. In 2022 people were already using it grudgingly, out of inert

The difference here is that Twitter had been going downhill for a while before the recent changes. In 2022 people were already using it grudgingly, out of inertia. Not addiction or excitement. Even before Musk, I consciously anticipated that a disruption to my chosen chronological feed client would mean the end of my time on Twitter. I prepared for it. I've started to wean and haven't missed it as much as I assumed I would. It's a relief as much of an imposition. I've tried out other ways of browsing content. There's no one service that will end up being exactly what Twitter was, but neither had Twitter been for a while. The various degradations of the experience over the last few months only had to be bad enough to get us to realize what we already sensed, that Twitter is in its Facebook era. It will still be running in 5 years because it's too big to die quickly. But it's on the downward slope of its cultural relevance. A year from now it will be the equivalent of that-site-your-grandparents-use.