The darn network effects keep people on the existing services and off of new ones. There have been protocols, like https://matrix.org/ (newer) and https://xmpp.org/ (older) .
If Facebook and Twitter were forced to interoperate with any of these other protocols then you could have a gradual migration. That's why you sure won't see that happen!
If Facebook and Twitter were forced to interoperate with any of these other protocols then you could have a gradual migration. That's why you sure won't see that happen!