In the end, journalists are dependent on social media to get eyeballs on their content. Twitter / X still is a highly effective tool for that. There won't be a

In the end, journalists are dependent on social media to get eyeballs on their content. Twitter / X still is a highly effective tool for that. There won't be a lot of people that can afford to opt out of that. Elon Musk probably rubbed a lot of people the wrong way with his antics but I don't think he was fundamentally that wrong with his core analysis of the issues facing Twitter when he bought it: - High staffing cost relative and some revenue challenges. - Content moderation that was simultaneously controversial, expensive, and biased. And also not that effective. - The Twitter API was getting abused a lot by people with all sorts of agendas. Including some state actors like Russia. - R&D stagnation. The site barely changed in the years before he bought it. So, he took a wrecking ball to the whole thing and upset a lot of people doing so. But, if he gets it back to being profitable next year, that will be a big milestone for them. I've been using it less and less over the years. But that already started before the takeover. I kind of like Mastodon currently but part of the attraction is that it is relatively free from the noisy crowd that makes Twitter less interesting than it used to be.