I don’t have a Twitter account but I use rss through nitter. It’s useful depending on the account like if you just want to be updated on the progress of some video game mod for instance, which can take years to complete. So it’s useful for project updates over manually going to like nexusmods or moddb.
As for why people use Twitter. That’s a easy one. It’s a good platform for self promotion and advertising. It’s less a platform for discussions, and more useful tool for getting exposure. It’s why Mastodon is not appealing as Twitter to individuals who use it, since it’s not for ideological reasons that they use something like Twitter but how many eyeballs they can get to view their content.
I don’t have a Twitter account but I use rss through nitter. It’s useful depending on the account like if you just want to be updated on the progress of some video game mod for instance, which can take years to complete. So it’s useful for project updates over manually going to like nexusmods or moddb.
As for why people use Twitter. That’s a easy one. It’s a good platform for self promotion and advertising. It’s less a platform for discussions, and more useful tool for getting exposure. It’s why Mastodon is not appealing as Twitter to individuals who use it, since it’s not for ideological reasons that they use something like Twitter but how many eyeballs they can get to view their content.