Here's yet another savvy take by Eve Fairbanks:
We’re in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion [2022-12-02]
https://www.wired.com/story/musk-denial-true-cost-twitter-im...
"But if we judge Twitter’s influence by its active users, we underestimate it massively. It has no peer as a forge of public opinion. In political analysis, publishing, public health, foreign policy, economics, history, the study of race, even in business and finance, Twitter has come to drive who gets quoted in the press. Who opines on TV. Who gets a podcast. In foreign affairs and political analysis, especially, it often determines whom we consider an authority. Almost every academic and journalist I know has come to read Twitter, even if they don’t have accounts."