I really want to believe but I cannot. For the majority of my life Twitter did not even exist. We did not get by any better BT (before Twitter) and AT (after Twitter) has brought as many negatives as positives IMO. There are roughly 300 million twitter users (many are bots). Even if you believe that number that is 300 million of the 9 billion people on the planet. Yawn.<p>Twitter gives people the illusion they are part of a larger conversation. That may make them feel important but people like Musk and Trump couldn't seriously give a flying F what anyone thinks. For them it a tool to cheaply control and influence the conversation. In many important ways it has cheapened public discourse and reduced every issue to its lowest common denominator - primarily what the average Twitter user thinks about a subject they know little or nothing about.<p>Will we lose some good things if Twitter went belly up - likely. We will also lose some extremely negative things so losing Twitter is not the stomach turning event some would make it to be.