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This recent post by Kevin Drum is a good reality check that most of Twitter is not political/media Twitter where the Musk insanity is playing out daily/hourly.
That Twitter – diverse in communities and interests and international – will also suffer, with less warning, from the impending coming of the blue check trolls
https://jabberwocking.com/the-real-twitter-is-not-left-or-right/
What happens when the vast world of Twitter discovers the bluntly coercive nature of Twitter Blue, which seems designed to drive people off the platform?
Many people around the world will get a rude shock when it comes time to pay $96 a year or see their accounts/Twitter communities systematically marginalized.
It is the coercion built into the Twitter Blue model – pay up or we will screw you and bury you (which seems largely based on hostility towards the "legacy blue elites" Musk wants to drive off the platform) that is so self-evidently ridiculous and destructive