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Competition is the heart of a free market. Twitter is a so called natural monopoly.


A monopoly of _what_ precisely? Anyone can roll their own social app. Has twitter patented the capacity to send 280 characters?


A monopoly of its social network. Its technology is not trivial at that scale either, and makes entering the market very expensive.




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