Calling it cynicism is generous - rather it's abject stupidity. Posters did the work that made the platform valuable, for free, often to the exclusion of postin

Calling it cynicism is generous - rather it's abject stupidity. Posters did the work that made the platform valuable, for free, often to the exclusion of posting the data elsewhere. Journalists were basically giving away their own product for free (or at least the part of their product that people want). Why would you want to disrupt any of them? Each content creator that stops or adopts alternatives makes Twitter just a little less valuable. Musk is basically doing a case study in how to degrow a social media company.