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> 40 billion dollars for a platform with such negligible reach... It might have "negligible reach" amongst the general population, but it does seem to have an
by tablespoon 4y ago
> 40 billion dollars for a platform with such negligible reach...
It might have "negligible reach" amongst the general population, but it does seem to have an extraordinary amount of cultural power. Whatever upside there is, it seems like it's more like the one you get from bankrolling political candidates and paying to disseminate ideological propaganda.
- rektide 4y ago100%. It may or may not sell products, be good for ads. Those engagements might not be ideal, for those stakeholders-bearing-checkbooks. But it is by orders of magnitude highest radix connector of humanity we have. I've probably clicked fav on a million different people's tweets, I've probably written messages to tens of thousands of different people I've never met. I've seen multiple sides of millions of topics & synthesized my own opinion. Nothing comes remotely close. Highest human engagement platform of all time.