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Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month by awb on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:40PM (#33429386)
This threat is interesting. I wonder what the minimum number is of top Twitter accounts that would have to leave for the platform to lose an unrecoverable amount of its daily impressions.

For example, out of the top 100 twitter accounts (https://socialblade.com/twitter/top/100), almost all are musicians, sports figures, politicians or news outlets.

If the top 5 musicians and the top 5 sports figures got together and started posting content exclusively on a new platform, I wonder if it would be enough to cause a gravitational shift.

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Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month by jjfoooo5 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @08:09PM (#33429714)
The critical thing for the platform is that if I want to find the Twitter account for {celebrity foo} I can do so with a high degree of confidence that it will be real.

I think the loss of trust from consumers is the bigger risk, successful impersonations are relatively high profile and people don't like being tricked.

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