If X (twitter) shuts their doors in Australia, it would be just a blip on its bottom line, but people in Australia will probably toss the existing Gov out of the country :)
Will be interesting to watch.
But there's a ton of people out there who would at best not care if it disappeared, and more likely be happy that everyone stopped asking people to follow them on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
I agree. I use X/Twitter myself. As you can see from the comments, there's a lot of hate toward the site (and the owner). Some of it outright passionate, some passive-aggressive.
I think that people who use "X, the site formerly known as Twitter" are just telling you in advance how they feel about X/Twitter (and/or Elon Musk).
The difference being that when a country of 1.4 billion asked Twitter to jump, Twitter asked "how high?"
The Australian government is demanding tweets be blocked for Australians everywhere, including Australian's using VPNs or Australians overseas - effectively claiming that Australian law has jurisdiction globally, and turning this into a global censorship demand.
Thats why the EFF has stepped in.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/business/twitter-india-la...
Tiktok has orders of magnitude more engagement, and the US can just ban it with the stroke of a pen, with no political blowback.
Also as others mentioned, X is not as prolific as you think, especially since the rebrand, and withdrawing from the AU market would just create more space for its competitors to take over. The sentiment here after a few recent public stabbing attacks would be in favour of the Govt, not a murder-porn platform.
See also: The US spying on every citizen, and international communication, in the name of maybe they'll find a terrorist in there somewhere.