> The megaphone is actually due to people voluntarily gathering around the person to listen to what they say. It's based on inflated numbers derived from false

> The megaphone is actually due to people voluntarily gathering around the person to listen to what they say. It's based on inflated numbers derived from false information. Tell me this - if you saw two adjacent town square forums and one person had 10 people listening and another one had 100 people listening to them, what are the odds the 111th person goes to listen to one over the other? The 100 people of course. This is effectively how twitter works, but can be gamed by fake "crowds" of bots. So, yes people are voluntarily listening to those with influence, but the gatherers are given inaccurate information to make that decision. The distinction is important.