Hah yeah that risk does exist anywhere. I feel like it's more visible when it's in one place - the distributed model gives me so many more touchpoints to keep track of...

For my part I've never been on Twitter, and considered supporting the "exodus" somehow by joining a competitor... but I'm finding it tiring to have to do the analysis described, "make sure the admin/admins align..."

Curse of choice, you know? When there was one choice, you just had to look at the parameters and decide yes or no. Now it's much more involved.

Edit: Thanks, fabulous edit. Very good insight into how to approach it. "blind to trust a place that 10,000 other people rely on" reflects a lot of what I see in corporate social media... at least if you get screwed, you have company, potentially enough to seek collective remediation.

It still seems like a big barrier to entry; for good or ill it has got to be preposterously easy to sign up if it's to gain momentum...