[esoterica]

Your analogy is entirely wrong. The equivalent to standing on a box on the street is hosting content on your own server, which anyone can still do. The equivalent of someone pulling you off your box is someone coming to your server rack and yanking the cables out, which Twitter is not doing.

[RonanTheGrey]

Incorrect. If you are standing on the street, everyone will hear you whether they want to or not (though they may ignore you), unless they are deaf.