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If you are a hobbyist writing blogs for fun and not spending hours doing seo for google old twitter was the only way your post / site could be delivered to your intended audience . You wrote a post about the latest python update ? Twitter will deliver it to python liking cluster . Something no other social media does nor do search engines like google where only limited sites are shown .

You vastly overestimate how many people actually use Twitter. The "python liking cluster" does not uniformly hang out on Twitter - maybe like less than ~3% of them probably still use the site. Also, X will happily downrank your content if it isn't controversial enough to be viral. After all, your python-likers aren't reading on a chronological timeline. They're being fed an algorithm of doomscrolling - finding your posts on the site is little more than a beneficial mistake.

You can continue to cling to Twitter until the corpse is cold and they've replaced the blue branding with black, if you wanted. People are both stockholm-syndromed to the app in an unhealthy way and addicted to attention-seeking in ways that X knowingly exploits for ad revenue and premium subscription tithes.

It will only get worse!

I do overestimate user count But sharing links was a big thing in twitter . And for cluster for someone who has zero traffic , ten or a hundred traffic makes a huge difference . I do intend to leave twitter but as my previous comment indicated there aren't any .

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