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I think Twitter is going down, may or may not go bankrupt but I think it will lose relevance. Wonder if it will be replaced. Lots of people (myself included) kinda assume that bluesky, mastodon or some other twitter-like service will take over. But Twitter is not really necessary, so I don't think it's a given that something will take its place.
As a time sink, more multimedia-oriented platforms like Reddit/Lemmy, Instagram, Tiktok or Youtube, seem more attractive.
The one big benefit I enjoyed with Twitter was following artists and scientists I would never have had such casual access to learn from in any other way. Being able to watch pros in their fields talk about their topics was something I never would have had access to. And because it's short form folks were more likely to post than on a blog or something.
Without social media the shop talk goes entirely behind closed doors, which is a loss for my ability to casually learn.
Twitter is also great for announcements. Band you like puts out a new single or album? They're touring? Twitter was great for that. I used it for that, books/authors, and a handful of other media that was similar where I was waiting for release dates. Mastodon and the others don't seem to have drawn those entities to them so they aren't as useful for those things. I don't really know what can replace it if it doesn't have the popularity.
Just do what we did in the 00s. Follow those scientists' homepages and read their bibliographies that show where they cited information from.
Its really not that bad yo. I did it as a teenager. Its not like scientists have stopped publishing bibliographies because Twitter suddenly came into existence, and honestly, the bibliographies are more important today than ever.