Elon actually pays a LOT. Many accounts pay their rent and more from twitter payouts.
1. They literally cannot leave or they won’t be able to pay rent.
2. They are forced to post rage bait brain ...
Regardless it is not sustainable. I have seen some reporting that Twitter and Facebook are losing users especially younger, while tiktok and Reddit are doing better with younger folks, but overall the social media is getting less use and it is more fragmented ... I think we are going to go back to forums to be honest. I basically use Nostr as a 4000 users forum or so.
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