Twitter had third party apps with no ads for over a decade without the sky falling. Few people use anything other than the default.

Fair point! Ditto for Reddit, I suppose.

Though, wasn’t Twitter’s financial situation starting to become somewhat dire toward the end of its pre-Musk life?

	▲	rsynnott a year ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, define dire. It was not what you’d call the world’s most profitable company, and had negative income for two years, but it had been cash flow positive every year for years. Its valuation was… optimistic, but it’s not like it was going to collapse or anything.