It's no mystery. They're there because the platform generally meets their needs for getting their messages out broadly and effectively.
Regardless of downsides, the upsides still outweigh particularly due to network effects.
Their messages are whatever they want to use their accounts to broadcast. Obviously journalists and economists will have different messages.
Whatever they have to say, that platform is an effective way of transmitting it, so they use it.
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@volkris and what message would that be exactly
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