| Give people a place to go for a "Twitter Classic" experience, before the rudeness and hate get re-platformed! ...and before the copious amounts of illegal content. One other aspect that is briefly touched on in the article and other related writings (of which I cannot recall any specifically, unfortunately) is the virtue that is required of a Twitter user on the platform. Twitter has a difficult time dealing with the sheer volume of illegal content popping up on the site (and I mean illegal, very immoral, not just something that can be handwaved as opinion - I mean things like e.g. straight up CSAM [0]) and I suspect that even if you solve the social network problems (and you have to solve that and try and get everyone over onto the platform together as whole social units, otherwise you have nothing but a void that people shout into), any competitor will eventually bleed itself dry with its "free" model due to the amount of money being thrown towards trying to close the floodgates, or at least stymying the tide of, incoming illegal content. (Interestingly, I suspect this is true of any other social media platform as well, and I think once you try and factor in the costs and technological innovations needed to try and stop the problem, it becomes a truly impossible task to try and displace any existing giant at their current financial states.) I do disagree on the millionaire bit, though - perhaps billionaire would be more apt for one to solve all the issues that social media can encounter given the kinds of valuations these platforms pull. [0] https://endsexualexploitation.org/twitter/ |