Depends on who is leaving, I'd say. The biggest draw to Twitter, from my outside perspective anyway, is news. Headlines, sure, but especially live, on the ground coverage.

If news orgs quit X, that'll be a big blow. Some left already, but I can't remember who it was off the top of my head.

But if breaking news, like protesters posting updates live, start coming majority from somewhere other than X (most likely Bluesky at this point), that will really signal the beginning of the end for Xs relevancy.

Just my $.02, to be taken with a large grain of salt.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, if that were to happen it would be a big blow. It hasn't happened despite all the things, so I'm not holding my breath.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 1 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, that's fair.

My guess is X will always be around, but a best case scenario is it dwindles in relevance and it becomes just another social media site, instead of the relative giant it is. The good news is Twitter was always an energetic but comparatively small social media network (relative to Facebook and Instagram). Really all it needs to fade into irrelevancy is the loss of those driver accounts that feed the rest of the site.

Fingers crossed, I guess.