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It’s entirely possible that Threads never succeeds to the level of Twitter, but still sucks up enough eyeballs and revenue to make Twitter unworkable as a business.

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It's possible sure but unlikely. There's a reason why there are countless news channels that span the political spectrum. Just because some orgs jump ship from Twitter, doesn't mean that all of them will, and there will be some orgs who tolerate it.

Twitter has a large user base who just use it because it has 500M daily active users.

Not every user is the same from a revenue perspective. I find Threads to be obnoxious because it's full of boring athletes and influencers, rather than interesting scientists and people writing sarcastic jokes. But (based on the advertising on network TV) I'm willing to accept the possibility that there might be more money in advertising to the kind of audience that likes athletes and influencers than in advertising to weirdos like me.

All it takes is for a solid chunk of the high-revenue "boring mainstream" audience to exit in order for Twitter to be permanently damaged as a revenue-generating enterprise, even if it still has lots of users. (And as a Twitter addict I think that would be sad! Not sure why the downvotes over a legitimate concern.)

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