>All of this makes Twitter seem so much more important even to people not constantly around tech, startup, or SV circles. I hate saying this, but Twitter does

>All of this makes Twitter seem so much more important even to people not constantly around tech, startup, or SV circles. I hate saying this, but Twitter does have outsized importance even to people not in said circles. That's because there's a concentration of influence on Twitter. Politicians, celebrities and especially journalists are on twitter. That means that the Twitter bubble can both diverge from the general population, then have an disproportionate impact on them.