People comparing Twitter to Nostr using user count are missing the fact that Twitter is the most effective way to share news *off of Twitter*. It's a news protocol.

Journalists read Twitter, so people post their first-hand news and commentary on there, and then the journos embed it in their blogs and articles, and the person who wrote it also embeds it in all of their websites and chats and etc.

And then lots of people click that embedded tweet 🐦, to read the comments. But you need an account to read, or 🩷, or respond to comments, so everyone who wants to click those tweets has an account.

And once you have that account and want to post something, yourself, the barrier to entry is low, to just login and post your something on Twitter.

This is how I read Twitter, every morning, with my ☕: