How would we know that Twitter has become a ghost town?

I think it’s happening already, and we know because Elon accidentally told us.

My latest, on Substack:

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/twitter-tumbleweed-watch

Twitter Tumbleweed Watch

The "view" count reveals a different story than Elon intended

The Future, Now and Then
@davekarpf You were probably never going to get 42K views, even if all 42K followers were active, because the algorithmic timeline on Twitter.com/Twitter app means they won’t necessarily ever be shown it. The followers most likely to see any tweet were those using 3rd party apps (for a complete, chronological timeline) but Elon just killed that option and I think average view counts are down slightly further as a result. 3rd party app users were probably a very active minority.