Not really a valid argument. We survived millennia without a lot of things. The Industrial Revolution was only two centuries ago. It doesn't mean life was necessarily better before then.

True. What I’m trying to say is that Twitter in a block chain would probably be an awful user experience.

OTOH -- Twitter (on the blockchain) supporting only ~10 tweets per second is a blessing in disguise that would drastically help improve the user experience by imposing a high cost on junk :P

Imagine a platform where tweets were so expensive only the rich could speak!

~$0.001 USD is the current cost for gas on Polygon for a transaction. If people have to pay credits to tweet (even this little), I would expect the quality to increase.

How will being attached to something as valuable as speech change the value of that?

Or similarly a world where one pays to read tweets.

People would get into bidding wars for the next tweet

Twitter could be improved by requiring a proof of work effort before posting any tweets. The effort could be computational, or just proof of fact checking and basic proofreading would go a long way.

"Proof of thought"

A pretty short blockchain that would be.

Twitter + proof-of-thought would be awesome :-).

Twitter is already an awful user experience.

Exactly my point: just imagine how fascinating the next 200,000 years will be with blockchain!

When you think in those terms you realize how shameful it is that, say, HN isn't getting in on the ground floor and spawning a worker in every reader's browser to mine crypto. The energy expended to mine Bitcoin pales in comparison to the early mover opportunities lost each day from lack of action.