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That's a pretty narrow view of global access to things. Yes, probably most households in the US have access to CNN - but I'd bet a much larger slice of the plan
by lreeves 15y ago
That's a pretty narrow view of global access to things. Yes, probably most households in the US have access to CNN - but I'd bet a much larger slice of the planet has Internet access and therefore can reach Twitter.
- brk 15y agos/CNN/BBC/ or whatever. I bet more people still have access to broadcast news than they do to Twitter.
- noahlt 15y agoHalf of the world has SMS access and can therefore use Twitter.
- brk 15y agoAnd how would they functionally leverage an SMS-only Twitter feed to get breaking info to something like this? Yes, conceptually a lot of people have access to Twitter. However, from a practicality standpoint my personal opinion is that it's not very effective tool for a scenario like this.