Do people still think twitter is a valuable place (besides being bot owners).

Value? Are others valuable? Why are they buying bots if there's nobody else? At least it's an RSS reader :)

It seems like geopolitical statements and international announcements happen a lot on Twitter/X these days.

I’m not a power user/poster but I see it as no less valuable than many other similar places. All of them have similar problems. For me it’s probably bifurcated by time spent tuning the feeds.

I know some people have ideological things going on that make them choose different networks, but they have more than half a billion active users so it's not exactly a ghost town.