Various forms of social media have been a critical part of the internet ever since consumers started getting access to the internet on dialup.

People signing up for a service with a sufficiently large userbase isn’t a recent phenomenon.

It’s fun and I don’t care about censorship. Also there are no ads (for now)

Musk is censoring NYTimes, Substack and many others. He's not into free-speech

https://themarkup.org/investigations/2023/09/15/twitter-is-s...