Staggers me that Twitter is substantively shaping the fate of the most powerful nation in the world, but can't turn a profit.
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I've written up my 'too big to nail' theory of Twitter, but I think a pure economics view misses half the story us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=78cbbb7f288
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The pure sociological view -- the narrative around trolls, abuse and community health in particular -- is also incomplete.
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New theory: Twitter has not just created *economic* land-grab territory with vast wealth that's too big for one company to nail...
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...it has created new *kind* of grey political turf, on the edge between legitimacy and illegitimacy in a social order (4chan is there too)
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it's a private company. The free speech derping misses the point and potential richness entirely, as does old media comparison
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trolling on abuse end of spectrum, esp of women, minorities, under a hypocritical banner of 'free speech' is morally illegitimate IMO
