Twitter's cost was based on its market value. Expanding the portfolio, however, isn't as expensive, especially not when your new boss has all the money. That combined with its pull factors is why some people bet on Twitter coming around eventually.

On the other hand, exactly that development towards super-apps makes it even more important that we push for decentralization.

Not to mention that the US is already reigned by mono- and oligopolies in many markets, it is also a privacy disaster.

Many nations, especially in Asia, have little awareness of the concept of privacy. and thus its consequences, so it isn't surprising such offers took off so swiftly there.