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It's an interesting analysis, but I totally disagree with the main point, which is that Twitter is declining. Yes, people are leaving for BlueSky, and some people even actually sign up for Threads instead of just misclicking in their IG feed. And yes, Twitter is now less liberal, though CNN admits it's now much closer to a 50/50 split when it comes to political views of the posters. This means that some more hard-left people leave for BlueSky. Just like some more hard-right people left for Parler and TruthSocial in the previous era. But in my opinion, Twitter is not declining. First, because it's experimenting a lot, and IMO, it's a good thing. Second is because it fulfills the main value proposition: "Cover the world's news in real-time with as many different opinions as possible" extremely well. Some people leave, but many of them come back, and whenever something big happens, they'd have to come back there because Bluesky or any other app can't serve as a real-time feed of Ukraine invasion, World Cup, or US Presidential elections. Twitter - at the end of the day - is the ideas colosseum. It's brutal, and many people don't like to tweet because of that. But this culture makes Twitter the best source for listening to multiple smart people from different sides (left vs. right, tech vs. anti-tech, Ukraine vs. Russia) debate and replicating that culture is very hard because it makes people uncomfortable.