Many people saw this coming and could not understand why government, politicians, businesses and news organisations piled in to make Twitter (and Facebook) part of their critical path for communication with the population.

I've made a nuisance of myself for years complaining about them tweeting links to Facebook posts for this reason.

We didn't know it would be #ElonMusk and the Saudis who would do this. We knew it would be someone like them. #TwitterMigration #FreeSpeech #fediverse