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It also sounds great until you consider other countries. Most people on Twitter are not in the US.
by madeofpalk 5y ago
It also sounds great until you consider other countries. Most people on Twitter are not in the US.
- akmarinov 5y agoThey’re not? I feel like Twitter is wildly unpopular outside the US. The US has more than 30% of its population on there, the third highest- India has about 20 million of its 1 billion+ people.
- halfmatthalfcat 5y agoWhat would make it more unpopular outside the US than inside the US?
- akmarinov 5y agoIt just never caught on outside the US like Facebook/Instagram did. From my small Eastern European country - no one I know uses Twitter, Reddit is more popular than it. That’s anecdotal, of course.
- CharlesW 5y agohttps://www.newsweek.com/countries-most-people-twitter-social-media-us-japan-uk-1631479 https://www.newsweek.com/countries-most-people-twitter-socia...
- akmarinov 5y agoI was looking at this one - https://www.statista.com/statistics/242606/number-of-active-twitter-users-in-selected-countries/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/242606/number-of-active-...
- thealfreds 5y agoAre these active usage numbers? I wonder how many of us have created one in the past but never use it. Or what the monthly actives are. Of my family and friends I only know of 2 who use it actively though most have an account.
- zarzavat 5y agoCan you elaborate on your point? Are you talking about Russian bot accounts, or that people in other countries may have views which are not suitable for Americans, or what exactly?
- dbbk 5y agoMany countries actually have very restrictive legal limits on speech
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoIndeed; China doesn't like references to a certain children's cartoon / book character, and nearly two billion people do not take kindly to any kind of disrespect aimed at their prophet.
- VerminOctopus1 5y agoYou can also look north to Canada where the American notion of “free speech” does not apply. There are reasonable limits on hate speech, obscenity, defamation and the like.
- alex_sf 5y agoHow does Canada define hate speech and obscenity? Both of those are categories of speech ripe for 'think of the children' authoritarianism.
- pieter_mj 5y agoUS has by far the most liberal freedom of speech (and I consider it very much superior compared to other countries' implementation) Musk's Twitter is certainly going to clash hard with Europe's recently adopted Digital Services Act.
- zarzavat 5y agoBut who is suggesting that Musk is going to enforce non-US laws on Twitter more than it currently does? He seems to be for the opposite of that.