I've seen the trend with some news outlets to report "what people are saying" and by that, reference a bunch of tweets about the topic. Which is lazy reporting.

I've seen the trend with some news outlets to report "what people are saying" and by that, reference a bunch of tweets about the topic. Which is lazy reporting. But confirmed by this report, Twitter isn't the general public. Twitter is incredibly progressive and hotly political. If Twitter would have been the one voting, Hillary would have been voted into office. But they weren't, and there was a whole segment of the country ignored, that probably isn't on Twitter. And it's no wonder that half the tech sphere was "stunned" was Trump was able to wiggle his way into office.