Aside from that, critical information is not exclusively posted on Twitter, although it used to be "locked" behind a radio or a TV receiver. An online account is not the insurmountable hurdle that you paint it as.
You could get user tracking added by a company called Nielsen but they actually paid you a small sum for your data.
I think this is quite different.
I didn't use Twitter for the better part of the last decade and don't feel like I missed anything important. Idem with Facebook that I haven't touched in over ten years. If I cared enough about defeating trackers I could spin up a personal Nitter instance with a pseudonymous account, otherwise I see it as the price to pay to have access to such a large volume of information instantaneously, and I would rather be tracked by private interests than by the government.
I also find it frustrating when any organization, government or otherwise, only publishes information on restricted channels, but that is nothing new.
Then we agree :)