I guess it's because a lot of local news channels and personalities still use twitter.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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Because there are a lot more people, breaking news, and content on there compared to anywhere else.
There is literally no other realistic alternative too it; they're simply all too small. I still follow many trusted news sources and politicians on it as well as fandoms.
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My entire fandoms are there. Also twitter is ok if you follow the right people, you don't depend on the trending list and you dgaf about follower count.
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Really only to get notifications of weather stuff from my local NWS office.
Research. Many people I'm interested in still use Twitter. And I hate how Nitter instances globally have started to become rate limited or outright obliterated by Twitter API weirdness/
I never used X. I use Facebook
That's... baffling, coming from a Lemmy user. Why are you okay with Mark Zuckerberg watching everything you interact with?
I'm a bit of an exhibitionist and I'm glad that Mark is watching.
There are a lot of friends which my only way to continue having contact is through it.
Also people can be pretty annoying on Mastodon (like many people in this thread as the top comment pointed out) and not a single one of said friends migrated to it
I literally donβt give a single fuck what people are involved with producing the software I use
Your asking the wrong community. Go ask Reddit this question
I'm not. Twitter was dead to me the moment Musk took over.
I don't have an insta, so I'm not on threads. there's no scaled up site to even come close to challenging twitter.
I'm still there because there is pretty much nowhere else to go. once one of these places actually starts being as active and engaging as twitter I'm going there.
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My best guess: Ignorance is bliss.
(As for me I deleted my Twitter account that moment Elon bought the platform).
Knowing what I know, Iβm not. Mastodon is good, but not the same. There needs to be a publicly run version of Twitter, with same algorithms.