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In the Australian App Store right now: - TikTok (#11) - Instagram (#12) - Facebook (#18) - Threads (#25) - X (#123) So based on available data it clearly isn't where it used to be in terms of popularity. And based on poor Twitter Blue subscription numbers [1] and the fact advertising revenue has halved [2] the company isn't financially doing so well either. [1] https://github.com/travisbrown/blue [2] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/twitters-ad-revenue-has-s...

Because Twitter is trending towards bankruptcy. a) It is valued at about a 1/4 of what it was purchased at. b) Twitter Blue has generated an irrelevant amount of revenue and churn is increasing [1]. c) Roadmap looks poor. Video is a terrible direction where only Google, Amazon, TikTok etc have been able to make the numbers work and that's because it is subsidised through other revenue sources. Payments is DOA given Twitter's inability to comply with existing regulations let alone how difficult KYC/AML is to manage. d) Regulatory and legal risk increases by the day. Lawsuits continue to pile up and EU/FTC are hovering around as Twitter is not in compliance with previous agreements. e) Brand safety continues to be a huge challenge that isn't solvable without effectively going back to what Twitter was previously. f) BlueSky and Instagram are

Travis Brown has a repo[0] listing all known Blue subscribers, regularly updated. I believe there's some libraries with reverse-engineered support for Twitter's private API that you should be able to feed the data into. (I've been reusing the keys for an old project; I believe if you didn't already register one, then official access to the blocking API endpoint costs $42,000/month.) [0]: https://github.com/travisbrown/blue