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Twitter's users are worthless.

Recent studies show that a very small percentage is responsible for some 97% of all tweets. And worse, 80% of those 97% of tweets are retweets.

There's almost no original content of any value on Twitter. You could now delete half of all Twitter users and absolutely nothing will happen.

Twitter is a bunch of celebrities/politicians saying things that fuel division and outrage, which generates the bulk of activity. They won't ban anything as because without Twitter richly rewarding them for idiotic takes, they are nothing.



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