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Twitter is not a weapon. Most of the world does not give a hoot about anything that is going on twitter. You might get some new come up in celebrity gossip but
by bobobob420 4y ago
Twitter is not a weapon. Most of the world does not give a hoot about anything that is going on twitter. You might get some new come up in celebrity gossip but that's really about it
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- mcguire 4y agoThe period between the Arab Spring and Jan, 2021, seems to argue otherwise, no?
- DevKoala 4y agoIt does matter. A lot of people live in a bubble in which Twitter’s loudest voices are a reflection of the “common sense”. That is why so many governments monitor it.
- robonerd 4y agoMost people in the world don't have subscriptions to the NYTimes, but the influence of that newspaper seems undeniable. Percentage of the global population paying attention seems like a poor measure of influence, not least because actual influence is not fairly distributed through the global populations. Influence over 100 US senators counts for much more than influence over 100 US plumbers.
- 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 4y ago> Most of the world does not give a hoot Correct, but journalists, politicians and companies do, which is all it needs. Twitter has been way more influential than it deserves to be for a while now.