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> we'll just have to wait and see if he succeeds. He or anyone else Twitter is a natural monopoly - evidenced by it's not having any real competition. Will it
by intrasight 5y ago
> we'll just have to wait and see if he succeeds.
He or anyone else
Twitter is a natural monopoly - evidenced by it's not having any real competition. Will it be a regulated monopoly? In that case, it should be valued like a water company. Is it an unregulated monopoly? In that case the market will decide if it can turn that monopoly into profits. There are a lot of commercial Twitter users. Charge them all ten cents a tweet. That adds up to about $10m per day.
- mulmen 5y agoYou’re kidding. It’s a monopoly if you define the market as “Twitter”. There is no shortage of social networks.
- mulmen 5y agoYou’re kidding. It’s a monopoly if you define the market as “Twitter”. There is no shortage of social networks. Certainly nothing about Twitter is a natural monopoly. Nothing prevents starting up a competitor or even a clone. The issue of locked in networks can be solved with regulation to open the data. It isn’t required that a single company own microblogging.