Re:Always Own Your Platform (2019)
by webmaven on Friday June 10, 2022 @02:50AM
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> Donald Trump went from 90 million followers on Twitter to 3.2 million followers on his own Twitter clone, and he has such a loyal following that people literally committed treason for him. Network effects are impossible to ignore
You're not wrong, but please note that those are Trump loyalists that followed him to a service that Trump didn't actually use until quite recently:
You're not wrong, but please note that those are Trump loyalists that followed him to a service that Trump didn't actually use until quite recently:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-makes-first-post-on-truth-s...
It kind of seems that far from being ignored, network effects were the main reason Trump was using Twitter in the first place.