There would be replacements but they wouldn't have staying power. Twitter works because there's only one. Powerful people in the world can use it to monitor pop

There would be replacements but they wouldn't have staying power. Twitter works because there's only one. Powerful people in the world can use it to monitor popular opinion on any topic. So its main role today in the lives of young people is political in nature. It allows them to come together and deliver a message to the establishment in a way that no other institution in society does. Think about the difference between Occupy Wall Street and #MeToo. People complain a lot about Twitter witch hunts, but that just shows you that Twitter movements actually get results. I can't think of a single goal from the Occupy movements that was met. The thing is that Twitter does not encourage dialogue or cooperation across subcultures of people. So likely, if Twitter were gone, each community would come up with its own replacement, and the powers that be would have no use for those.