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1. mmaund+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-12-16 02:20:33
One thing you can take away is the resilience of a network effect. Twitter as an application is laughably easy to build. But it's very hard to kill thanks to the massive audience and the individual connections.

The only way Twitter will die is if the network effect is killed, or somehow used against Twitter to create a competing platform.

replies(3): >>deadmu+x1 >>holler+24 >>smrtin+69
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2. deadmu+x1[view] [source] 2022-12-16 02:30:25
>>mmaund+(OP)
Could the same have been said of Facebook in 2014?
replies(1): >>DiNovi+u4
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3. holler+24[view] [source] 2022-12-16 02:43:46
>>mmaund+(OP)
> Twitter as an application is laughably easy to build.

I think parts of Twitter may be easy to build in isolation, but the entire platform as a whole is certainly not easy by any means and would be very expensive to construct.

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4. DiNovi+u4[view] [source] [discussion] 2022-12-16 02:46:29
>>deadmu+x1
facebook knew this and bought instagram. twitter shit down vine which left the door open for tiktok
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5. smrtin+69[view] [source] 2022-12-16 03:08:04
>>mmaund+(OP)
Thus the perfect time for any large competitor to come out with an alternative. Even Google has a shot lol
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