Facebook also touted this. But they would never do it, as it would almost immediately spawn a competing copycat substitute service that would receive a massive userbase for free at its inception, risking creating a formidable competitor.

Or even worse - no substitute service would even spring up, giving a strong signal that people don't actually need the service FB/Twitter offer at all!

They only stand to loose for exiting a market as a protest.

It’s not like twitter is rocket science. And Europe is alright at rocket science anyway.

It twitter abandons the European market, people will use something else.

> It twitter abandons the European market, people will use something else.

Yes, and then be disconnected from the rest of the world.

Thankfully the world doesn’t run in Twitter.

haha funny.

Given that approximately 5% of Germans use Twitter, I don't think many people would care or even notice.

Honestly that would be wonderful

God, stop, don't give me that much hope. Elon blowing 44 billions on a site worth maybe 5, before making it unavailable to half its userbase ? As well as reducing the amount of russian propaganda (that Elon does like to regurgitate all on his own anyways) that can be spewed on social networks ? This could be the biggest waste of money since the Tumblr acquisition, I'd love to help set records.

Can we nuke Facebook on the way too ?