- But Twitter doesn't care if you leave!
Actually, Twitter does care if I leave. Twitter thinks of me as an asset to their network.
I know this because they let me use it for free! I mean free free. I don't see ads; I don't see promoted tweets; I don't even see "trending topics". Twitter can't track my browser use. I make them zero money. I must be good loss leader for them.
I've talked about this before. The only reason Twitter allows third-party clients is that they're favored by the kind of user Twitter needs to stay relevant: interesting, net-literate people who entertain their followers. I bring in eyeballs for the ad traffic.
Of course, there's a lot of us loss leaders, and I'm a very minor example. Twitter doesn't care about me personally. But I am an example. I will be a Kantian example and do what I think is right.