I don't think another Twitter can happen. That ship has sailed. Bluesky is trying its best to be "another Twitter" but its invite-only approach severely hampers

I don't think another Twitter can happen. That ship has sailed. Bluesky is trying its best to be "another Twitter" but its invite-only approach severely hampers its ability to fill that niche and even if it didn't have that, it isn't easy to build back what Twitter lost. Arguably even Twitter was no longer Twitter, even prior to the acquisition talks. Twitter was as much the place you would go to to get citizen journalism when big tragedies broke as it was the place you'd hear endless outrage over a person you never heard of before having done something inconsequential that everyone agreed was significant enough to try and end their career over. By the end, a common refrain was the hope never to become the "main character" because everyone's history had some rope to hang them by if presented in the most outraged and uncharitable way. But on the other hand it was also a way to be heard, a place to motivate millions for activism (as long as it didn't take any real risk or effort and could be tweeted about throughout) and to do viral marketing. It feels like that has been replaced with niches and auto-curation either presenting userbases of similar sites with disjointed siloed experiences or with a homogeneous repetitive timeline of what advertisers might like or what Elon Musk personally wants you to see (which seems to be mostly his own posts). Twitter feels like for a while it was the closest approximation to the "global town square" or the mythical "marketplace of ideas" but in all truth that didn't last long and once marketing departments, advertising agencies, internet trolls and state actors had caught on and mastered the new medium, it was already dead.