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?
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?