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Twitter used to be a very effective tool for spreading information (good or bad). It was often used by people protesting against their governments to organize gatherings, events and all sorts of stuff.
Then coincidentally when the USA desperately needs something like that, it is no longer around.
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Twitter isn't even an open platform anymore since Musk took over, which completely defeats the purpose of this application—if you need an account to see content, it's hard to say that it's still a platform for public statements, since the content simply isn't publicly available anymore.