Anything is better than nothing. If Trump had said "Twitter is fake news of the internet" and then shut his Twitter down and exclusively used Gab or some other platform, he not only would have dealt a blow to Twitter, he would have helped boost an anti-censorship platform.
Also, funny how pushing back and winning can't be done because it "plays right into their hands!"...
Using a different platform is a good idea, but it changes nothing about how Twitter operates. If you want to have something done with the media, you need something very specific to be effective, something that prevents them from altering content for political reasons but also preserves the 1st amendment.
If Trump had swithed to something else while he was president, it would have made that something else relevant, added hundreds of millions of users to it as even people who hated him were obsessed with reading his tweets, and that something else would today be a real competitir to twitter, if not already bigger.
A lesson for the next populist. Use establisment media / social media to get elected - then switch to a platform that's sympathetic to you and your followers once you have everyone's attention.
Yes you'll probably lose followrers at least in the short run, but you'll gain influence. And followers is just a number.
Anything is better than nothing. If Trump had said "Twitter is fake news of the internet" and then shut his Twitter down and exclusively used Gab or some other platform, he not only would have dealt a blow to Twitter, he would have helped boost an anti-censorship platform.
Also, funny how pushing back and winning can't be done because it "plays right into their hands!"...
Using a different platform is a good idea, but it changes nothing about how Twitter operates. If you want to have something done with the media, you need something very specific to be effective, something that prevents them from altering content for political reasons but also preserves the 1st amendment.
It's trickier than you make it sound.
If Trump had swithed to something else while he was president, it would have made that something else relevant, added hundreds of millions of users to it as even people who hated him were obsessed with reading his tweets, and that something else would today be a real competitir to twitter, if not already bigger.
A lesson for the next populist. Use establisment media / social media to get elected - then switch to a platform that's sympathetic to you and your followers once you have everyone's attention.
Yes you'll probably lose followrers at least in the short run, but you'll gain influence. And followers is just a number.