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Oh, Twitter definitely fits. There's a reason Twitter is dominated by professions like academics, journalists, and writers: They have a lot of time during their
by Mezzie 5y ago
Oh, Twitter definitely fits. There's a reason Twitter is dominated by professions like academics, journalists, and writers: They have a lot of time during their work day/ work time to spend on Twitter. They're allowed hours of access to computers + their work performance is judged on social metrics in addition to quantitative ones.
Each social media's most active class is a group of people that has more free time than the average person (for whatever reason). Twitter's is just 'highly educated people with the free time and autonomy in their (likely WFH or unsupervised) jobs to fuck around online.'
My friends who work at academic institutions and who do creative work for a living have way more free time than your average office, retail, or service worker. That's why Twitter is such a cesspit when it comes to anything around social class.