3 Reasons Why Twitter Is the Social Media of the Future

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Today 97% of the world population doesn’t use Twitter.

This social media is, by many measures, irrelevant. It’s a big pack of trolls, haters, and shitposters. With a few journalists and personalities here and there, sharing their opinions on anything and everything — thinking everybody else should agree with them.

It’s trash.

But it has a future.

An extremely bright one.

By 2050, Twitter will be the dominant social media in the world.

Not only is it going to conquer the US and European markets, but it will also take over Asia. Particularly in China, where it will replace WeChat.

This might sound crazy when you know that “according to a survey on digital usage in China, around 77 percent of respondents had used WeChat for social networking as of the third quarter of 2021.”

There are three main reasons why Twitter will grow from around 300 million users today to 5 billion in 2050.

#1 Elon Musk

It’s not what you think. Of course, Elon Musk had to be on this list; he’s the one having us all talk about Twitter recently.

Whether he will finally own Twitter or not doesn’t matter. He has done his butterfly effect by giving Twitter the strong push it needed after Jack Dorsey’s departure.

Twitter is in between at the moment. It’s an inflection point in its history that could lead to greatness or extinction.

Twitter is a mirror of our society. And Elon Musk is Twitter’s savior, as he is for our society.

#2 Always get it in writing

We don’t realize that since 2006, Twitter has accumulated gazillions of data. With a big difference from its competitors. It’s all text.

And if you’ve been dealing with artificial intelligence and statistically optimized algorithms, you know how much easier it can be to deal with text. It’s several orders of magnitude easier than with pictures or, worse, videos.

Twitter is sitting on a gold mine. All they need is some talented but creatively crazy team of data engineers to have THE idea. They already have the brain power; they only need the extra spark that triggers a knowledge bonanza.

With 500 million tweets daily, imagine the insights Twitter could produce with the right algorithm. Stock markets, human psychology, political agendas, …, nothing would be out of reach. If only they get THE idea.

It’s just a matter of time.

#3 Manipulation

In the short term, it’s the main reason for Twitter’s upcoming exponential growth.

Powerful people and powerful groups have a strong interest in Twitter’s development.

We all have seen how social media can be used to manipulate people. I don’t need to remind you of the countless examples of manipulative abuse by individuals, groups, or even countries.

Maybe it’s counter-intuitive, but words have more power than images and videos. Slowly, people learn images and videos can be altered without any visible trace. More and more people understand that deep fakes are changing the digital landscape.

But words are different.

Scientific papers use words, not videos. Our teachers write words on our classrooms’ blackboards. Declarations of independence, countries’ constitutions and laws are made of words.

Words have our respect.

Words are reliable.

We think we can trust words.

More than a hundred years ago, Nietzsche said that all “he needed was a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then he could turn the world upside down.”

Imagine what someone like him could do with Twitter and an army of bots at their command.

Mark my words

“By 2050, Twitter will be the dominant social media in the world.”

Might be 2048 or 2055. Who cares?

It’s only a matter of time before I’m proven right.