Micah LeeAn excellent article.
"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate https://www.salon.com/2023/08/01/they-need-us-we-dont-need-them-the-fall-of-twitter-is-making-the-and-grifters-desperate/
beforewisdom 
That looked like a fun article. I skimmed it. I didn't see any numbers or references. No way to tell if it isn't something a writer spun up from nothing.
William Gunn@beforewisdom @micahflee The author has more than a few axes to grind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Marcotte
I skimmed the page you linked to correctly. I didn't say any connection to this conversation about the article being a fluff piece.