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It's a tiny part of the internet by volume. Dwarfed by breaking bad reruns. It's the whole internet in terms of journalist and politician communications.
by woooooo 4y ago
It's a tiny part of the internet by volume. Dwarfed by breaking bad reruns.
It's the whole internet in terms of journalist and politician communications.
- archagon 4y agoNo...? When the Hunter Biden thing was happening, I could hardly find a social media corner where people weren't obnoxiously talking about it.
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- woooooo 4y agoBut all of the media people and politicians were on Twitter, and not on Bob's auto parts forum.
- chrisbaker98 4y agoYou read HN; you're not a normal person. 95% of everyone you know didn't hear about the Hunter Biden thing at the time, and most of them probably still don't know about it.
- philjohn 4y agoThat's utter rubbish. Plenty of people with high follower counts were talking about it, as were right wing followed of the former President. The story was still up on the NY Post website.
- chrisbaker98 4y agoExactly: the vast majority of people don't use Twitter and aren't part of anyone's "follower count". Most people outside of your (and my) bubble don't read the news, don't pay much attention to politics, aren't particularly well educated, don't think very hard about who they're going to vote for (if they even vote), and if they use Twitter at all it's to post cat videos and keep up with the Kardashians. You might not cross paths with this kind of person much in your daily life, but I promise you they're everywhere - and most of them would struggle to tell you what Joe Biden's son's name is, let alone what controversies he's been involved in.
- ytpete 4y agoWhat about, say, Cnn.com? Foxnews.com? Facebook? Do those parts of the Internet tend to carry politician communications fairly often too?