Elon accepts that this effort of his to preserve a neutral/common digital town square can very much possibly fail, but he wants to try
it may very well can either go better from here on or worst and may end up just like "Orkut". (Let's see how many know this reference 馃槄 )
the good thing about twitter and which I like most is that popular people use this platform, from almost every kind of social backgrounds and industry. interacting with such intelligent people is a great experience on twitter. This kind of experience I have not see on other social media.
so if these high profile people starts to move out from Twitter to something different, in mass, that would mean Twitter is not really gonna survive for long, coz for the rest of the people, they are the reason to keep using twitter, mostly, as I understand.
Like, I use hive, great alternative decentralised platform, but it's missing part is the daily interactions with high profile people speaking their mind, which has still been on twitter.