It's become quite influential in the worlds media. Back in the Trump days the world's headlines used to be "Trump tweeted <x>". Not that I miss the Trump stuff but the same goes for a lot of influential figures.
It was interesting in covid times that a lot of the newspapers had headlines "University x finds so and so about covid" but you could go on Twitter and read the tweets from the Prof of Virology at said university and get a much more accurate version released about 12 hours earlier. It put me off the MSM a bit to see how much they span things. It can be a superior source of info as long as you are careful to follow the real experts and not the cranks.