This is a profound misunderstanding of what makes Twitter valuable. Of course the technology isn’t anything special. Of course the features aren’t revolutionary. The value is in the people that use it and the connections between them. That’s something that takes years of hard work; it can’t simply be built or bought.
Exactly. I've gotten a lot of value out of Twitter because all my research collaborators are on it, as are their collaborators, and so on. It's a convenient place to keep track of all that. Twitter failing scatters that network to who-knows-where, and it'll take a long time (if ever) for it to coalesce like that again.
