3 ms·
I think the main takeaway is that twitter over represents people who tweet a lot, because those people are responsible for a larger percentage of the tweets. Th
by ufo 4y ago
I think the main takeaway is that twitter over represents people who tweet a lot, because those people are responsible for a larger percentage of the tweets. The author argues that this makes twitter more negative than real life, because negative tweeters post more tweets. They also point out that journalists and politicians, who consider twitter to be very important, are affected by the twitter atmosphere. For example, during the black lives matter protest the #DefundThePolice hashtag got a lot of circulation on twitter and reverberated with mainstream media and politicians. Despite it being a relatively fringe slogan, the way it's worded (taken literally, it sounds like abolishing the police altogether).
- jimmaswell 4y agoYou could also say your attention span in real life overrepresents people who talk your ear off about Joe Biden at the checkout line or protest on the road. Maybe it's not really so different.
- thrown_22 4y agoProtesting on the road takes time and effort. Tweeting merely requires a toilet break at work. Once I started viewing all online media as the equivalent of the graffiti on toilet stalls the world started making sense again.
- marcosdumay 4y agoExcept that it doesn't, at least not on the same scale. If people start talking all the time in real life people will first start ignoring them, and then isolate them.