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Twitter is an awful product. I will never understand why it became popular, why it remains popular, or its appeal.



Twitter's market share has only shrunk, and their user base has been flat since about 2015. It is "popular" with a very specific group of people but I don't think they've ever topped 350 million human users at any point in their existence, which while not small, but they're not growing, either.


It's popular because popular people like having a platform and audience, and people like hearing from (and maybe interacting with) popular people.




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