X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called::After a report called out Musk’s union-busting, UAW’s blue check got reinstated.

  • SlopppyEngineer
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    1 year ago

    It’s the network effect. People still use it because other people are there.

    • xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. I’m not famous at all, but I could imagine it would be troublesome trying to migrate a popular account with thousands of followers to another service.

      Even if you were successful, you’d probably only retain a quarter of your followers because most people can’t be ballsed to dl/sign up for another app.

      Half your followers on Twitter are probably bots or inactive anyhow, so take that as you will.