The killer app at present is social media. Not public social media, but private. It is not Facebook that matters, but messenger and Instagram. It is not twitter, but Gab.

Twitter is for trolling. Without trolls, it has no utility.

Which brings us to the fourth law of SJWs: Regulators ruin everything left. While the SJWs invade, kill, gut and wear the skinsuit, regulators use the force of the law to twist organizations from their goals, often in collusion with the SJW orcs.

And the implosion may be in the next few days, if Twitter doth purge.

Twitter will begin enforcing new rules tomorrow that will suspend accounts affiliated with hate groups “on and off the platform” — a policy that could lead to a crack down on some alt-right users.

Initially announced in November, Twitter will also start penalizing accounts that include “hateful imagery and display names,” presumably including Nazi insignia, or those who “use [a] username, display name, or profile bio to engage in abusive behavior.”

For Twitter, the two new restrictions are attempts to combat rampant harassment and abuse on the site. Users affiliated with the alt-right or neo-Nazi movements in particular have seized on the company’s notoriously lax oversight to stoke racial tensions, peddle false news reports and attack their critics, including Democrats. Earlier this year, they organized a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia with the aid of the platform.

To that end, the looming, December 18 enforcement deadline left some of Twitter’s right-leaning users this weekend fearing a full, messy “purge.” Some said they’d be shifting to Gab, an alt-right friendly social media site, and encouraged their supporters to do the same.

Twitter did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment on Sunday.

To be sure, Twitter does not explicitly mention the alt-right or neo-Nazi groups in the rules it first previewed in November. Rather, its new policy more broadly seeks to outlaw “specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.”

Notably, though, Twitter has said it would be monitoring groups’ behavior outside of the website, as it makes its decision as to which users have run afoul of its new guidelines.

“You also may not affiliate with organizations that — whether by their own statements or activity both on and off the platform — use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes,” the policy says.

For months, Twitter has felt pressure — from users in the U.S. and regulators around the world, particularly in Europe — to crack down on hate speech

For Twitter needs us to have a small dopamine release: it uses the behavioural techniques of a casino. This has made the Facebook founders millionaires. But at what cost? They have made themselves as kings, and they monitor our thoughts. Some of what might go.

The billionaire and former Facebook president Sean Parker now says he regrets helping turn the social network into a global phenomenon. The site grew by “exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology” with its greed for attention and the careful reward system it created to keep users addicted.

“We need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever… It’s a social-validation feedback loop… a vulnerability in human psychology,” he admitted to news site Axios.

Parker’s backing was instrumental in turning the Harvard campus-only software into a global phenomenon by introducing Zuckerberg to Silicon Valley venture capital. (Parker was played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network.) As a reward, Parker was made company president, but only briefly – he was fired early on after being arrested for cocaine possession, although never charged. Parker retained four per cent of the company’s stock.

His net worth is estimated at $7.8bn.

The idea of social media is that we are validated by our score and our likes. This is human: as it is human to note your traffic, and count the heads in the pew. Or lecture theatre. But there are many ways to get a little dopamine in your life. Raising children means these events happen when you don’t want them, and don’t like them.

But to build a business on this is to build on sand. You don’t need Twitter: you don’t need Facebook. If you speak true, you will have an audience, even if you are cryptic, obscure, and hated. The people who seek truth will shun an echo chamber of lies.

So the challenge for the two big social ecosystems is to not converge, but to allow a thousand flowers. To accept speech they do not like. To defend the user from the internet censors — from Iran to London.

Or they will implode, and be one with MySpace.

UPDATE.

The memes are starting.

UPDATE 2,

Generation Identiaire has been taken down. Groyper (the new Pepe) has been taken down.