Comment by Levitz

>By that logic they should be printing memos and dumping them in the Hudson, in case some of the people swimming there want to read them.

And if it costed as much as posting on X, they should.

>In either case, they're making this decision based on data that they have

And people take issue precisely with that not making any sense, which leads people to look at stuff like

>clearly the tiny amount of traffic from Twitter is not worth the effort and reputational harm that comes from staying on the platform.

By which I mean "stuff like that statement". Not that they ACTUALLY face any reputational harm (a ludicrous assertion) but that the politics high above have shifted in such a way that they'd agree with something like that.

This betrays their mission and paints a bad picture of their future, which ironically, does incur in reputational harm.