Journalists love Twitter because it's a real-time information network.
If your job is covering what's happening right now, there's no better space to find out immediate local and international happenings, alongside comments and even spectacular video footage at times. At some point something else will come along, the way Yahoo was superseded by Google. But right now, I don't see anyone else getting the critical mass to change that.
Bluesky is interesting, but Jack Dorsey was either complicit or incompetent in letting Twitter's back office become overrun with access and manipulation by three-letter government agencies. I have no reason to believe his current effort won't be similarly compromised from inside.
Again, none of this means that Musk is an angel. But I have no real current reason to move from Twitter to go elsewhere. Yet.
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