I personally wish people were heading for Mastodon. I especially think that our institutions should operate Mastodon instances on their own, so that an American tech giant can't decide to "cancel" a Danish politician as an example. I mean, I don't agree with anything our far right does on social media, but the concept of a foreign tech giant being able to ban an elected Danish official is still sort of crazy. Anyway, people are going to Threads for the most part.
Note that this is a perspective from my little point of the world. Though some of our major news media have decided to ditch Twitter, as well as closing their posts on Facebook to comments.
At least the EU is doing a lot of good work.
https://www.edps.europa.eu/system/files/2022-07/22-07-26_tec...
Why add this without any source lol?
Things like the leftie Palestine protests and the news streamer Hasanabi extensively get news from and use Twitter.
And also, I totally agree with you that this is definitely not so clear-cut in the case of North America and Japan (aka the two largest countries on Twitter/X by their userbase).
(Prominent news paper - paywalled): https://www.information.dk/kultur/leder/2024/01/dommedagspro...
(Prominent news paper - paywalled): https://pro.ing.dk/datatech/artikel/twitters-algoritmer-fors...
(danish national human rights institution - note that it's a NGO that works with our government but isn't an actual government institution): https://menneskeret.dk/lgbt-barometer/diskrimination-had
(Democratic analytical NGO - note that democratic is democracy not a political party): https://www.ogtal.dk/publikationer/ytringsklimaet-for-skeive...
All this is if we trust the numbers coming out of Twitter.
But still, 30% is more than 7%.