After decades of espousing the benefits of the network effect, this is kinda a weird take.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1266341458900127748 …
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You might be right, but even that implies that Twitter has no moat. I can’t see how the hundreds of millions of Twitter users move en masse to another platform - has that ever happened?
Every time a social media platform has died, its users have gone somewhere. And network effects being what they are, they mostly went to the same places.
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Not much data, but I wonder what the mean time to death is for social platforms is. Ever seen a graph with historical growth laid next to each other?
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A nice r/dataisbeutiful post on this (first pic), looks like 5 yrs early on but extending now. Looking at the google trends without scaling, it’s interesting to see Facebook crashing from its dominant place (2nd pic) and twitter, instagram and reddit competing (3rd pic).pic.twitter.com/4Ge6ZnCQ7J
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People forget that Facebook is basically AOL v2.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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You might be right, I just can’t think of one recently. It’s not clear to me that Friendster or MySpace are comparable to this situation, size and monetisation quite different.
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