
Elon Musk's efforts to squeeze as much money as he can out of all Twitter users small and very big is leading to an exodus of not just site members, but on-platform utility.
No one can or should argue that Twitter was in excellent shape when Elon Musk bought it for $44 billion (and probably overpaid by a lot). It was bloated, full of trolls, and probably burning through cash, but at its core, Twitter was still fundamentally useful to a broad swath of the online populace.