@nyanide @jexams @bot twitter purged them out or made a major attempt to, and also loosened the rules on shitposting/rw posting that many of the "based" accounts went back to Twitter in an attempt at not solely preaching to the choir.

Many of them went back to Twitter because there's a chance that you can sway the normiesphere to some degree (this was highly effective for a while between 2014-17).