And Twitter isn't an especially large social media platform. It's a fraction the size of Facebook or Insta or YouTube:

Things don’t always relate to size. The National Inquirer had a larger circulation than The NY Times, but the Times was a gazillion percent more influential. More to the point, Fox News has a smaller average audience than ABC, CBS, or NBC nighttime news, but Fox the one driving the national agenda, not the old-line TV network news departments.

Twitter has an outsize follower-ship among media importantes, tech gurus, and similar driving the national conversation. It swings a far larger bat than its simple “user” statistics might indicate.

Twitter was a twisted hellscape long before he bought it.

He has made it arguably worse, using it to artificially shape the conversation to the talking points he chooses, amplifying those with a point of view which which he agrees and diminishing others, and allowing the worst of the worst back in so there is no “penalty” for being a negative force for society. (Likewise the CiC with his endless and incomprehensible pardons.)

I don’t go there unless I am thrown there by a link somewhere else which happens rarely, but occasionally. But I do have an account, left over from the previous owners and it seemed to make little difference whether I kept it or deleted it, so it stands.