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Twitter is also not a "public forum". They are a private company (exactly like Tesla) and can choose what people and what content they want to serve.

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This. I don't know why people think that Twitter and other social platforms are public forum. People blocked by Twitter don't lose their freedom of speech. Besides, what most of the people crying about this want is not freedom of speech, it's freedom of repercussions.

Exactly. If Twitter bans you, you're free to make your own Twitter or other speech platform. That is, the internet itself, not the private sites on it, is the public square.

If what you have to say is so revolutionary, surely people will be coming to your new site in droves to hear your amazing commentary they can't get on Twitter.

Except nobody actually cares about what these people have to say, or else they'd have already done so. Half the time you can bet it's some middle aged dude pissed off that he got reported for calling someone a slur or spreading 5G-mind-control-level conspiracy theories.

And refuse to bake the cake?

This isn't equivalent. If Twitter bans someone for the sole reason they are religious, then you could argue that as a public accommodation they are discriminating against that individual. That would fall in line with the case about a refusal to bake a cake.

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