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chaseadam17 on Nov 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter's descent into the extractive

If Twitter were a utility, I'd agree with your points. But it's not, and network effect on Twitter's scale is not "trivially reproducible."

antirez on Nov 17, 2012 [–]

Yes what I mean is that if just the technology is trivially reproducible, if you have the network effects on your side (everybody is using XYZ), you take the leadership as long as you don't annoy users over a certain limit. In the attempt to make money it is easy to go over the limit...

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