> What about ladder-climbing benefits for artists?

There is already Instagram, Soundcloud, Youtube for that.

Twitter is mainly a tool for journalists to cheaply source news and content they can redistribute on content farms, customer support for brands but so is Facebook, the rest is just toxic influencers and their rent-a-mob AKA followers spreading outrage.

Not being an artist, I have no idea if this is a thing - but if so, I suppose the same logic applies; except I would expect artists to also be able to get value from photo/video content on Instagram or Tiktok to a much greater extent than technology workers.