I feel like i say this every few weeks but
ppl rly REALLY need to look at their relationship with twitter (especially as an artist/vendor/creative in general) when you choose not to leave or even bother putting up social media accounts anywhere else.
I've seen so many people defend themselves about staying on twit for their business because it's where all their customers are but at this point I'm skeptical when they continuously post about how the algorithm works against them or how their tweets don't get engagement, therefore, they must be getting purposely suppressed.
It just feels like it's all excuses bc moving or setting up in multiple places is hard (and honestly, it is hard! But at this point your life isn't getting easier by staying on a sinking ship.)
For example a friend of mine who runs a popular webcomic has talked about, across all her social media accounts and even her mailing list, she makes the least amount of sales from twitter (this is something she can track via where customers come from across the web.)
She says even though she can get lots of retweets and likes, a very very tiny amount of sales actually come via twitter. Meanwhile she gets less views on her mailing list and her one off promotions on other sites, but they make her a lot more sales than a single twitter hit.
Like, at this point I feel like if you don't try and branch out to other sites (even though its hard. I know it's hard. social media really sucks because of this!!) then you're not going to see any movement. Even spending money on twitter blue doesn't guarantee anything when you're fighting 3 billion resale bots that respond to every hit tweet. You're wasting your money at that point on a monthly basis.
With twitter's stance on hate speech (especially if you're lgbt+ ) I have to wonder what you're fighting so hard for staying there.
Like, you don't have to stop using it cold turkey, but you gotta start thinking about branching out to other places.
Like yeah, making that jump into a life boat or taking your chances swimming out to sea maybe don't guarantee survival but, at least you're not just sitting there inside the hull of a sinking ship thinking "don't worry guys, it won't sink. It's too hard to swim out anyways."