We have statistics to talk about this sort of stuff. And Twitter revenue, whilst a fraction of that of Meta, is growing, and is currently $5B/yr.
To put things into perspective, Tiktok's revenue is only 2x of that of Twitter's, $10B/yr. Clearly Twitter gets enough eyeballs (like mine) that people want to pay for it.
These people just don't buy stuff. Instagram and TikTok get the product in your face given that they are photo/video centric, whereas 90% of twitter images are memes which don't push any commerce. It's impossible to push influencer marketing on twitter because the platform never really embraced video/images.
> I have also found the journalistic and sports sections of Twitter to be very useful. For instance, where else does one get the latest football injury news, or line changes made on the san jose sharks?
I don't doubt that it's great for the dedicated user who takes time to curate their feed, but discussing about the flow of $ to buy eyeballs, Twitter is mediocre.