Seems like this mass Exodus of talent from Twitter is a good opportunity for the former employees to get together and build a different Twitter. I bet a bunch of people would be willing to move.
I'm not sure that anyone could create another Twitter.<p>Not from a technical standpoint, but from building a userbase.<p>The X-factor for Twitter, from my observations, was that they used established media as their biggest advert or ambassadors. This was kind-of organic, though making tweets easy to embed was surely one of the biggest part of it. The value of the free advertising Twitter has received from publicity in media is probably in the hundreds of billions. That's all from making it easy to embed tweets in articles, providing APIs and branding guidance for on-air graphics and so on. They quickly got journalists and news producers as users. The snake eats it tail and as soon as politicians noticed that a tweet could be on all the news outlets within the hour they focused more and more of their messaging to be through Twitter. That's really hard to build up again.<p>And on that same note the media can kill Twitter in a few weeks, stop saying X said Y on Twitter and just say 'on social media'. Stop embedding tweets or using screenshots/branded graphics from Twitter - or just stop reporting what someone has posted on Twitter.
I guess we're about to find out if it really was all necessary talent that left. If Twitter usage continues to increase, even with some crashes, that will probably indicate that many former employees were not actually performing useful work, and so would be unlikely to "build a new Twitter."
I have even idea to make it ad free.<p>1) it will have plans free, newbie, pro
2) free plan gets 10 tweets/month
3) newbie (1$/month) - 100 tweets/month
4) pro 5$/month - 1000 tweets/ month
Meh. Why not take all the learnings from failure and create something better, that doesn't fail so hard at things we take for granted in the West?