>I was actually referring to the financial institutions who backed the takeover writing off ~75% of the value of their investment in the platform during Musk’s leadership, which predates the recent Bluesky enthusiasm.
Makes sense. Valid argument.
>yes, a vocal minority of leftists moving to a new platform is indeed a decline! Get your politics out of it and think about what it means for a business.
Nothing. They will all come back.
>Part of twitter’s value was that it was where news broke, people made statements, etc. It was cited on the news.
It still is. Nothing has changed.
>There was no other platform like that (except perhaps Instagram, usually with pop culture figures).
There still isn't. Bsky is no competition in that regard. There's nothing of value for 'normal' people there.
>There is indeed a small group of people who, if you lose them, cause enormous damage to a platform like Twitter, because for many people using it they are using it because of the other people using it.
And yet they are not the people leaving. How many of these supposed giant exoduses were we supposed to have by now? First the death of artists on Twitter after the Japanese left to misskey? Out of whom many are back on Twitter regardless? All the Mastodon refugees, who also in great numbers have returned and only the fanatics have stayed? Twitter is not dying anytime soon and you (and others like you) are once again crying wolf over a situation we've been in multiple times.