I think the amount of money that was bankrolled into Twitter is sustaining the impression of survival.
For me the most useful part of Twitter was real time news trends. I don't even open that tab anymore.
Next most useful thing was the network of scientists from my field. It is also non existent now. I saved a lot of tweets about new papers over the years. When I went back to read them during literature review for my dissertation, I found most of them gone and accounts deleted.
What has increased drastically is verified accounts spewing either sensationalism without any care for engagement, or outright misinformation, sometimes taken down hilariously by community notes.
Right so what I'm suggesting is the current situation is not a stable state. If I'm right, what you should expect is that those people will, slowly, return to posting their content on X. If I'm wrong, you should expect more and more people migrating off of X and less and less active users on there. The reason I think I am right is because the size and connectivity of the X social graph.
For me the most useful part of Twitter was real time news trends. I don't even open that tab anymore.
Next most useful thing was the network of scientists from my field. It is also non existent now. I saved a lot of tweets about new papers over the years. When I went back to read them during literature review for my dissertation, I found most of them gone and accounts deleted.
What has increased drastically is verified accounts spewing either sensationalism without any care for engagement, or outright misinformation, sometimes taken down hilariously by community notes.