I think old #Twitter could be called "the social network for news" and it functions like a natural monopoly. It only works works well if all journalists, newsmakers and concerned citizens are on the same network. He fucked around but I think we're still actually in the early days of Elon figuring out how to work the levers to maximize his advantage. And somehow very few seem to be thinking this through or caring enough to compromise and work together with rivals to do anything to fix this.