{"id":1567385,"date":"2022-07-23T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1567385"},"modified":"2022-07-23T07:19:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T11:19:39","slug":"jason-miller-post-musk-twitter-is-doomed-disruptive-social-media-platforms-are-primed-to-replace-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jason-miller-post-musk-twitter-is-doomed-disruptive-social-media-platforms-are-primed-to-replace-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Miller: Post-Musk Twitter is Doomed. Disruptive Social Media Platforms Are Primed to Replace It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjason-miller-post-musk-twitter-is-doomed-disruptive-social-media-platforms-are-primed-to-replace-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1567385&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12\">\n<div class=\"contributor-img pull-left\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/jasonmiller\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jason Miller\" class=\"img-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/media.townhall.com\/townhall\/reu\/contributor-sm\/authorimages\/\/e93a8384-c109-4050-b6aa-009884384dd8.jpeg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>|<\/p>\n<p>Posted: Jul 22, 2022 12:01 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<p><em>The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left aside-wrapper aside-wrapper-950\">\n<\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Elon Musk\u2019s failed takeover of Twitter generated countless headlines the past few months and brought about a renewed debate over the role of free speech in social media. The one thing it didn\u2019t generate however was the only thing that matters: results.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Musk\u2019s announcement that he is backing out of his high-stakes gamble came as no surprise to anyone who has been watching Big Tech in recent years. His proposed acquisition of Twitter was destined to fail from the start because the problems plaguing Twitter run far deeper than anything that can be fixed by a new CEO. From political discrimination to bots to an inability to connect with the \u201cTikTok Generation,\u201d and a complete lack of business focus or vision, Twitter is a fundamentally broken product that places \u201cwokeness\u201d over freedom\u2026and it\u2019s Twitter\u2019s users who suffer.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Musk\u2019s attempt to restore some degree of freedom of speech to Twitter was the platform\u2019s last hope to remain a relevant social media site. I can\u2019t stress this point enough: Musk was Twitter\u2019s final chance at success. He even made this explicit in his pitch to buy the company, arguing that Twitter needed a serious pivot away from censorship and suspensions, and towards free speech and diversity of thought to build a better user experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In response, Musk was met with shock, dismay, personal attacks, and unhinged resistance from Twitter staff. If there were any voices of reason left within the company, they were quickly drowned out. Many even threatened to quit over fear of losing their ability to \u201cmoderate content,\u201d which is code for censoring Tweets and viewpoints they don\u2019t like. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Whatever the reason Musk ultimately decided to back out of his deal, it\u2019s clear that things are undoubtedly going to get worse for Twitter and their users. The company\u2019s stock has plummeted more than 40% over the past year, with no end in sight. Why would anyone want to invest in a company whose employees clearly have no interest in being saved, and why would anyone work to turn around a struggling social media platform that would rather watch its own stock price tumble than proclaim a commitment to free speech? And who wants to champion a culture or platform which silences and punishes doctors, academics, and scientists for raising alternative viewpoints?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This doesn&#8217;t sound very American to me. Twitter\u2019s insistence on picking winners and losers in the free speech debate and their inability to adapt to the technological demands of younger users still has not been addressed, and the company\u2019s censorious nature has the Blue Bird on a glide path to insolvency, with nobody else coming to their rescue.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Twitter remains \u2013 for now, at least \u2013 a privately held public utility. The dominant, global, digital town square. But a digital town square more interested in manipulating what users can share rather than being a digital town square for users of all perspectives. While this may satiate the ideological crusade of Twitters\u2019 staffers, it doesn\u2019t make for a strong business model, and is ironically antithetical to Twitter\u2019s motto, \u201cIt\u2019s what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The question now isn\u2019t what\u2019s next for Twitter. The question is what\u2019s next after Twitter. The answer lies with alternative platforms that the free market has built in response to users clamoring for a social media company that hasn\u2019t anchored itself to censorship; that will protect users\u2019 right to hear and be heard; and that doesn\u2019t seek to join the Silicon Valley social media oligopoly, but rather to challenge it. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One such challenger is Rumble, the video hosting platform challenging YouTube\u2019s marketplace dominance. Former Trump aide John McEntee intends to disrupt the dating app social media landscape with \u201cThe Right Stuff.\u201d And GETTR, the all-in-one free speech platform we launched last summer, aims to challenge Twitter and other Big Tech titans by combining microblogging, livestreaming, and short video creation into a single app, free from political discrimination.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s too late for Twitter, but the vision Twitter once had &#8211; to create a free and open digital town square for citizens to share and converse with each other without the threat of censorship, is very much alive\u2026on other platforms.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As the famous quote goes, \u2018If you build it, they will come.\u2019 We\u2019ve already built it at GETTR, and free-speech hungry users are coming.<\/p>\n<section>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Jason Miller was a Senior Advisor to President Donald J. Trump during both the 2016 and 2020 campaigns and is the Chief Executive Officer of the social media platform GETTR.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| Posted: Jul 22, 2022 12:01 AM  The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}