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You mention 42, then a thousand, and then we're talking real effects. Twitter gets analyzed by professional analysts. It also gets digested without any analys
by wavefunction 7y ago
You mention 42, then a thousand, and then we're talking real effects. Twitter gets analyzed by professional analysts. It also gets digested without any analysis by its users.
- dev_dull 7y agoKind of a fun “internet troll butterfly effect” thought experiment. However, using the same logic any small “flutter” in the other direction would be enough to cancel out the “real effects” and make them moot.
- marcus_holmes 7y agohmm, yes... this is absolutely something you could experiment with. A thousand people is not enough to influence an election. A single article is not enough to influence an election. Yes, it's possible that something goes viral and gets seen a million times, but that's not what we're talking about here.