Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by snowwrestler on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:45PM (#34042062)

If you define Twitter’s market as “sites that do things very similarly to Twitter,” I agree they look dominant. I doubt U.S. courts would agree with such a narrow definition, though.

Twitter itself doesn’t seem to take that view of its own market, given that Facebook and Instagram are first on the block list—both products of Meta, a competitor with far more eyeballs and revenue than Twitter.

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Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by wpietri on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:53PM (#34042163)

The FTC themselves say "a product market in an antitrust investigation consists of all goods or services that buyers view as close substitutes". So I don't think it's "do things very similarly to Twitter" as much as it is "serves the same need as Twitter". And as I said, looking at the discussions around leaving Twitter provides plenty of evidence that close substitutes are not available in the view of users.

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