I think there are sub-populations who think Twitter encompasses all, particularly in the pop culture and journalism crossroads. I had a strange professional ex

I think there are sub-populations who think Twitter encompasses all, particularly in the pop culture and journalism crossroads. I had a strange professional experience encountering media school academics about 5-7 years ago who were all so gung-ho about it. This was when the "firehose" could be acquired with a budget plausible within a grant-funded research group, and they seemed to imagine themselves having total information awareness like they had joined the five eyes. They spoke as if they were on the cusp of a future where this tool replaced all other forms of polling and data-gathering for social science, with no apparent concern for the incompleteness of this perspective nor of the ethical quandaries if it really were that powerful.