Consider how suddenly there is a spike of #TwitterMigration as soon as Elmo bans several journalists, and their media orgs complain publicly.
Clear indication that if media orgs decided to move away from :birdsite:, others would follow.
And sure, these media orgs are now between a rock and a hard place, having to potentially leave their presence there built over a decade. But they put themselves there, by promoting walled gardens for a decade.
They have some reckoning and introspection to do.
For years #media and other orgs have been saying "we can't move away, our audience is there" whenever a prospect of maybe not supporting centralized services came up.
But that ignores the 1% Rule: "only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
In other words, audience follows those who create. If media orgs moved, audience would move with them. In other words, they had it all backwards.
For years #media and other orgs have been saying "we can't move away, our audience is there" whenever a prospect of maybe not supporting centralized services came up.
But that ignores the 1% Rule: "only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule