Hypothetically, what do we think the effect would be if twitter went down and never came back?
Elon would make his own Twitter called Doge-r, and a company that developed it and also did construction, so he could have dump trucks called Dogers (as in bulldozer), jokes about "taking a dump", etc
The level of vitriol, hate, and performative outrage has reached up to the gods on Twitter. The valuable signal that comes out has long been overwhelmed by the noise.
There are other platforms that largely fulfill the same purpose.
Biggest unofficial support channel would be closed.
Also my large smut collection would be inaccessible.