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0 pointsperrygeo3y ago0 comments

> See: every streaming service

The key difference is that streaming services purchase valuable content and resell it. There is obvious demand and the market clearly exists.

Twitter provides little in the way of mass entertainment, unless you enjoy watching people argue with trolls in an algorithmically-created drama. The content is not created by twitter. There is no obvious market demand; the vast majority of people on the planet wouldn't bother using twitter even if it was free.

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nomel3y ago

> the vast majority of people on the planet wouldn't bother using twitter even if it was free.

"wouldn't bother" should be "don't bother".

For the world, around 290 million [1], with an internet population of around 4 billion [2], that's around 7%.

Things are a bit better for the us, with 41.5 million active users [1], assuming they're all over 18 (209 million), that's about 20% of US population.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/10/25/twit...

2. https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=number+...

perrygeoOP3y ago

> "wouldn't bother" should be "don't bother"

excellent point - I should use the active present tense. That is: "most people alive today don't bother with twitter, despite the fact that it's free."

Is it "free" in other meanings of the word - free of charge, free speech, free expression, freedom of religion, freedom to lie, freedom to intimidate? Time will tell.

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