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Sometimes it's not just about quantity. Not all impressions are equal.

And like it or not - Twitter is still the preferred communication platform of quite a few influential people.

Interactions on X are notoriously low-quality and botted to hell, so “not all impressions are equal” might not be a great point to push here.

And not all influential people are Elon Musk or Catturd.

I don't like it and I haven't used it since before the whole nazi salute thing. I feel gross just accidentally following links to that place. Why would I support it or the people who use it?

That's a great reason for people like me to not use it, and I assume for people like you also, but it's not the question that organisations like the EFF need to ask.

No, the relevant questions for the EFF are the ones that the EFF put into their blog post to explain why they're not on X despite remaining on e.g. Facebook, which may or may not be the same as this tweet (I don't read tweets but did read the blog post): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

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