Really only to get notifications of weather stuff from my local NWS office.
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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/
A lot of youtubers and such only make announcements for content and streams via twitter, or their own services that kind of suck worse in terms of access. In order to stay on top of some limited access content, twitter is still "useful" in that regard.
Personally, I've never used it for that, I mostly ever checked twitter when a site I visit or game I play is down and they don't have a good way of conveying details otherwise. But I know of content creators that use it for that, so I'd understand people using it to stay abreast of content that way.
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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Your asking the wrong community. Go ask Reddit this question
I literally donβt give a single fuck what people are involved with producing the software I use
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.
I second this!
Even Mastodon is not even cutting it close.
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.
My best guess: Ignorance is bliss.
(As for me I deleted my Twitter account that moment Elon bought the platform).
I'm not. Twitter was dead to me the moment Musk took over.
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
Sports. I can get a hundred tweets of highlights almost instantly on Twitter.