"The answer is that it was less censored than it is now." I read the rest of your post, but you are gaslighting if you feel Twitter is more censored now. I don't care what some fake numbers say, you can feel the difference between before and now. Night and day difference.
This tells me that you are not in fact interested in evidence-based perspectives on social media censorship. Either that or it’s only censorship to you when opinions you agree with are being suppressed. How you “feel” is irrelevant, for reasons I hope I don’t have to explain.