> Here's an analogy. With phones, you own your phone number […] we just haven't had comparable competition in the social media space for a while now.<p>One of the problems with this analogy is that the competition being lauded <i>only</i> exists because of government regulatory action. Number portability isn’t there because of an “open network”, it’s there because a regulator requires it… if we existed in a sensible timeline Twitter et al would be required to provide account portability too.