Twitter was useful for getting updates about sports during games - for example, an update on whether a player who was injured might return to the game, or sometimes, more detail on something weird that happened (you’d be shocked at how poorly informed people in the arena are, compared to those watching on TV). A lot of this depends on who is feeding the info, though, and the more recent beat reporters for our favorite hockey team haven’t been as active on Twitter, so I closed my account after Musk bought it. Haven’t really missed it.

But even today, every article about something that happened in a game will embed a Twitter link for video. Like there’s no other possibility - just Twitter.

I’m not defending this, just saying that sports use it extremely heavily.