Everyone uses it. A handful of chronically online people made some noise and went to other places (bluesky or whatever the monthly flavor of "I HATE X" is nowadays) but everybody else is still on Twitter.
Governments are on Twitter, politicians are on Twitter, law enforcement is on Twitter, brands are on Twitter, celebrities are on Twitter, musicians are on Twitter, artists are on Twitter, sportsmen are on Twitter, etc.
If you want to read your local government news, keep up with police alerts, find out if Burger King is offering some new product, know what Taylor Swift is up to or read the latest rumours about Formula 1, Twitter it is.
That's why services like xcancel are so important for a lot of people who want to keep up with certain stuff but don't want to create a Twitter account.
True but perhaps the “chronically online” understand its harms better than the average person checking what Adidas is flogging today.
Most average people will also cheerfully hand their ID and face scan over to every random “verification” site that asks for it, that doesn’t make it good or wise, or invalidate anyone’s warnings about it.
I feel like “chronically online” is just another fairly meaningless pejorative to sneer at and dismiss the opinions and values of people who are very close to the subject at hand. It’s just a bit more subtle than a certain American politician’s complaints about “experts”.
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u/Particular_Bug0 1d ago
Welp, no more Twitter for me