Twitter is unique and came about due to specific circumstances at a particular time. It cannot be reproduced. Even if a similar service, such as Gab, grew to the same prominence, it would not be the same as Twitter even if progressives managed to capture it, as is obvious in the case of Gab.
Patrick Little was a famous case. Very openly anti-jew person running for political office. Gab chose to censor him off their platform. Gab's owner has since shifted to adopt more openly anti-jewish users and even retweeted some interesting posts. Gab's owner never apologized and invited Patrick Little back. It's a small gesture that would go a long way to increase trust in Gab.
gab's owner openly espouses "asks the questions" that would get people banned from most social media, even when the questions are legitimate and true. he openly blames jews for shit. if he banned patrick, i strongly suspect there was something else going on beyond patrick just not worshiping jews.
I disagree. All it would take is for athletes, movie stars and rappers to move to a new platform and NPC's would follow them without a doubt. And the media would happily move as well.
Whether that will ever happen is another story, and it seems unlikely now but a lot can change.
My point is that it's definitely possible for a competitor to overtake Twitter, but they need the bulk of famous people to leave Twitter otherwise it'll never happen.
All it would take is... x to move to a new platform and NPC's would follow
That's not the solution, that's the problem; they won't move because any other service isn't Twitter. They like it there (in so far as anyone who says they don't would be ejected from the elite social clique immediately), so why would they move?
Twitter is unique and came about due to specific circumstances at a particular time. It cannot be reproduced. Even if a similar service, such as Gab, grew to the same prominence, it would not be the same as Twitter even if progressives managed to capture it, as is obvious in the case of Gab.
gab could have gotten bigger than twitter but they chose to censor. why use gab when I can go get censored on a bigger site if I'm ok with that?
Based on his response I’m going to guess he’s upset that they don’t allow porn.
Let me know when you can openly promote heathen Pegan beliefs.
no they don't allow j question
Patrick Little was a famous case. Very openly anti-jew person running for political office. Gab chose to censor him off their platform. Gab's owner has since shifted to adopt more openly anti-jewish users and even retweeted some interesting posts. Gab's owner never apologized and invited Patrick Little back. It's a small gesture that would go a long way to increase trust in Gab.
damage was done. we should have realized when it was named gab, that's a soy name.
gab's owner openly espouses "asks the questions" that would get people banned from most social media, even when the questions are legitimate and true. he openly blames jews for shit. if he banned patrick, i strongly suspect there was something else going on beyond patrick just not worshiping jews.
bad take, that debate is over. lesson learned for gab
You gotta be really retarded if Gab censors you.
I disagree. All it would take is for athletes, movie stars and rappers to move to a new platform and NPC's would follow them without a doubt. And the media would happily move as well.
Whether that will ever happen is another story, and it seems unlikely now but a lot can change.
It still wouldn't be Twitter, which proudly took credit for the Arab Spring.
Obviously it wouldn't be Twitter...
My point is that it's definitely possible for a competitor to overtake Twitter, but they need the bulk of famous people to leave Twitter otherwise it'll never happen.
My point is that it wouldn't have the same value to the regime as Twitter.
That's not the solution, that's the problem; they won't move because any other service isn't Twitter. They like it there (in so far as anyone who says they don't would be ejected from the elite social clique immediately), so why would they move?