[undefined1]

It's interesting how Twitter is self-isolating.

Why would any other country use it now?

No doubt this will lead to countries leaving Twitter and making their own. Indeed at least Germany, France[1] and Mexico[2] realize the problem.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-11/merkel-se...

2. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-mexico/mexic...

[prophesi]

> Why would any other country use it now?

For the same reason people were using it before. Everyone is on Twitter. A much, much smaller fraction are on Twitter-alternatives.

That said, I wish them the best of luck, as I hope alternatives are able to succeed in the near future.

[lokedhs]

Nowhere near "everyone" is on Twitter. I have to admit that I don't know a single person who is (I'm sure some of them are, it's not like I ask everyone if they use some specific platform).

The point is that a lot of media people is, and posting there gets you exposure. But as this group of people is much smaller than your proverbial "everyone", moving them off Twitter is a much easier affair.

I have often thought about what would happen if a small number of very high profile Twitter users with a wide reach to various different groups decided to set up their own servers (Mastodon perhaps) and asked their followers to go there. How many such high-profile users would you need before Twitter's momentum completely stops? I argue that that number is very small.