Twitter’s Surprising Stability

Many of us thought Twitter would collapse after mass layoffs last November, but so far that’s not panning out.

Starlings roosting to form a “whale in the sky.” Photo by James Wainscoat on Unsplash

Note: I wrote this in February 2023. In October 2023, The Wall Street Journal published a report based on usage data from Sensor Tower.

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