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This is obviously not true; Twitter was widely used long before Trump and the vast majority of the current user base does not follow Trump at all.
by esoterica 6y ago
This is obviously not true; Twitter was widely used long before Trump and the vast majority of the current user base does not follow Trump at all.
- oarabbus_ 6y ago>This is obviously not true; Follow numbers matter little, if at all. In fact follower numbers are a rounding error in this context. Trump's tweet's reach is on the order of billions of people; hundreds of news organizations cite his tweets on a weekly (sometimes daily) basis, and orders of magnitude more bloggers do so as well. It's absolutely true, but people may not like to acknowledge that.
- esoterica 6y ago> Trump's tweet's reach is on the order of billions of people I think you vastly overestimate the number of extremely online politics people who pay close attention to Trump's tweets. People use Twitter to follow their friends and celebrities, not because of Trump. Only a minuscule fraction of the attention that Twitter receives is attributable to him.