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It's the network effect. People still use it because other people are there.
Yeah. I'm not famous at all, but I could imagine it would be troublesome trying to migrate a popular account with thousands of followers to another service.
Even if you were successful, you'd probably only retain a quarter of your followers because most people can't be ballsed to dl/sign up for another app.
Half your followers on Twitter are probably bots or inactive anyhow, so take that as you will.