First, Twitter just isn't as much fun as it used to be. People are there out of inertia and inability to port their followers, not delight. Second, Twitter Blu

First, Twitter just isn't as much fun as it used to be. People are there out of inertia and inability to port their followers, not delight. Second, Twitter Blue still has ads so you're still the product. > how the hell is this whole thing supposed to work? Twitter was relatively recently profitable. Surely they got bloated and through layoffs could have gotten back there or close. And the prior ownership would have stayed centrist enough to avoid pissing off either side's advertisers or users at scale. And maybe the prior ownership could have launched a paid tier that people felt good about, rather than taking away features and APIs and selling an experience that was lesser than what we'd been used to getting for free.