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.

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 ?