Seth Abramson thread (NINE postscripts) on why he thinks Twitter is important for progressives

[Emrys]

4. He's right.

The fact it's fashionable among some on DU - especially those who seem to have very superficial experiences and knowledge of Twitter and are the most vocal about it - not to acknowledge or accept that doesn't change the facts.

The worthwhile accounts I value and read regularly are still there and functioning much as normal. Some have taken out the insurance of signing up for a presence on other sites in case everything goes totally down the tubes, but they're intent on hunkering down, gritting their teeth and carrying on doing what they do. This seems to be an emerging concensus among them, even those who've never heard of Seth Abramson:

Link to tweet

Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson

PS10/ But I’ll also make a prediction: given that the neo-Nazis already have Gab, Parler, GTTR, Truth Social, and even—let’s admit it—the political quadrant of Facebook, if progressives now cede *Twitter* to them and then scatter to the wind, it will be a major blow to democracy.