[elcomet]

I mean it's fairly easy to understand why people used this.

It's very convenient (just click share or use a WordPress widget to embed tweet), it always look pretty, and there are multiple actions available from the tweet: go to profile, reply, share ...

So more features for less time to set-up. This is a service like all other Service, you usually tradeoff something like privacy for convenience. Why use Dropbox when you can have your own NAS ?

[atoav]

> you usually tradeoff something like privacy for convenience

You trade GDPR-complience for convenience and all the Functions gained are not that hard to replicate..