people, among thousands of others from every spectrum of social interests, to reach a wide enough audience to essentially exist either from Twitter generated revenue, or by giving them the ability to easily link to either their blogs, utube channels or actual websites, etc. that would generate small dollar revenue by simply "texting". You need to generate a lot of traffic to your blog/website or utube (who have now slashed across the board revenue for creators) to at least make a meager living at it.
While I never used it (I dumped social media at the turn of this century for the most part) I think it served a fairly free, safe and open space for the exchange of ideas via a simple text style platform. Like anything else (from the first carved stone spear tips to tech today) the allure of mass amounts of wealth consumed and monopolized it. I remember the huge outrage when the rumor mill started that it was going to go public even before Eloon showed interest, which made it worse.
Twitter had become the driver for 10's of thousands to make some kind of living on their own, from really serious people to the moronic, a virtual Alice's Restaurant if you will. But because this "public" square was owned by a private company (even though their product was technically free) that's where the problem lay and the owners of the company decided to cash out. This has always been one of the reasons I personally don't use, or rely as little as possible, on social media. The rug can be ripped out from under you in the blink of an eye and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
The Twitter space had become so large that when eloon bought it (I believe for the technical infrastructure to support his Starlink system more than for what it was) and turned it into an echo chamber for his ego, to this day there are still people who need it either to still try and drive revenue or just simply because it's easy.
I remember Mark Cuban's response when asked about eloon buying it. He said "look, he's got the money, it's a private company, if he wants it, he can buy it and do legally whatever he wants with it, eve shut it off the day he buys it. Its the risk you take when dealing with private entities". Besides, the number of hits generated from this message board to his platform are a miniscule drop in the xitter bucket. He ain't getting richer off of us. Just my 2 cents 
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