I wouldn't trust Cory Doctorow's anecdotal evidence on Twitter usage. His Like/View ratio is very low, and overall engagement for someone with 486k followers is some of the worst I've seen.

Part of the issue is he spams his followers with retweets constantly, all day. People may not know they can turn off retweets for someone. They may just mute them, and continue to follow.

It's very much like Cory to write a long article about this when really what's happening is him and the people he follows are becoming more irrelevant.

23 likes / 8,722 views = 0.26 https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1612122825288208387

44 likes / 9,384 views = 0.46 https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1611993024879554560

193 likes / 15,400 views = 1.25 https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1611976607845224451

44 likes / 29,300 views = 0.15 https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1611858168774098945

162 likes / 48,500 views = 0.33 https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1610282255057813504

I had to scroll a long time just to get those 5 because he's constantly retweeting.

1.0 is what you would want. Anything around 0.5 or less is really bad.

He hardly has any replies to his tweets. IMO, replies and quote tweets are what people are using twitter for. He also links off twitter too much.

SocialBlade stats: https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/doctorow/monthly