It would be an error to compare the importance of the two, if both were required.
I'm almost certain that that without the Twitter campaigns nothing would've happened. Steem would've remained under the thumb of Justin Sun and the world would never have heard the truth. Hive would've gone the way of Weku.
I don’t think it’s all that productive either, but that’s because we’re both operating on pure speculation. There were people that were DIRECTLY involved and have first hand, non speculative information about how the events unfolded and those people, in large part, if not unanimously support this proposal.
Everyone should vote or act with what they feel is right and it’ll be what it is. As I said before, that’s DPOS being DPOS.
I wouldn't discount the significance of the Twitter storm as being merely speculative. PR is hugely important for businesses like cryptocurrency exchanges that rely on trust. If trust is goes away, they stand to lose large sums of money.
What I mean is that our determination of the impact is speculative as opposed to objective. I THINK it had x impact and someone else THINKS it had y impact. None of us are forming these opinions on objective information, so it’s not really worth arguing about as no one can prove that the thing that they think is absolutely the right thing.
The other variable that we can use to make a determination is the first hand accounts of people involved.
It’s not lost on me that I instigated the debate on the efficacy of a Twitter campaign, but too large a focus on that is derailing the larger point.
You know what else is speculative? Whether or not those exchanges would've listed us in the first place if it weren't for the massive publicity brought about by the community making so much noise.