On the Twitter Hack
&gt; Companies like Facebook and Twitter have so much power because they are so large, and they face no real competition.<p>I find it hard to take the rest of the article seriously when it&#x27;s talking about Twitter as a giant monopoly that needs to be broken up...<p>But also the argument seems fundamentally wrong. Account security is a prime example of a place where economies of scale bring a lot of benefit. I would absolutely trust the security of say Facebook, Google or Microsoft above that of Twitter just due to the larger scale. They can afford to spend more on security, since they have more users, and their users are more valuable. Every dollar spent on security applies to the whole user base. And similarly I&#x27;d trust Twitter above a 100 person web startup.<p>If you start regulating for some kind of a minimum security bar, either you&#x27;re going to be killing a lot of companies, or you&#x27;re going to be setting the bar laughably low compared to what these companies already do.<p>&gt; Were there 100 different Twitter-like companies<p>... they would all be bankrupt.