No, not everybody has stopped using it, it will take time, but Musk won’t stop being a shitty person, and as more and more organizations and institutions leave, it will reach a point where still being on it will associate you with Musk. Between Twitter being a welcoming place for Nazis and Facebook fucking up peoples feeds and the atmosphere and their AI-caused bannings driving loyal users away, there will be plenty of money/resources for upstarts to flourish.
GeoCities and MySpace didn’t die overnight, and MySpace had a 6 month start on Facebook (and arguably more momentum at the start for not being limited in its audience). Digg didn’t die overnight either when Reddit started up. In fact both Digg and MySpace are still around. Musk’s vanity and Temu drop shippers will keep the Twitter severs online for the foreseeable future, but many people and companies will go to the alternatives, and they are.
Musk doesn’t care about driving many people away from Twitter and making it an echo chamber - he’s willing to throw money at it, and it feeds his ego, but there’s the benefit that as he drives users away, it’ll be cheaper to operate. Zuckerberg is the one who fucked himself over in the long term so he could make short term gains.
Zuckerberg moving to AI moderation for FB and automatically banning long-time users over innocent crap that a human would have realized was not violating the rules, and with no way for many of them to get their accounts back, and with his deliberately crippling Threads to constantly drive its users to Instagram, is going to be the more interesting case. He doesn’t have the US taxpayer propping up his space and car companies so that he’s got an ATM machine to keep the lights on.
It’s actually beautiful that Zuck’s AI moderation is wrecking so many accounts of longtime FB users who had done nothing wrong. It’s fitting.
And the Zuckerberg of the old days would have bent over backwards to make Threads a clone of Twitter in order to wreck Twitter when Musk is basically driving millions of users away and making companies look for alternatives. Zuckerberg of 2025 is protecting Instagram while trying to peel off a few Twitter users.