@jerry I first joined Twitter back in 2008, and finally canned it for good in January, when they blocked Tweetbot.
In those 15 years I never once knowingly gave them a single penny of my money.
Meanwhile, I've been on this instance since a week after I joined Mastodon, and have been paying €3 a month to help with the running costs ever since.
Funny how it goes, isn't it?