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> Twitter is where the world goes today That's a pretty twitter-centric view of things See this https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-netwo

> Twitter is where the world goes today That's a pretty twitter-centric view of things See this https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net... I have no clue where the hell people get this "public square" analogy from because the numbers don't back it

xu_ituairo 4y ago
It might be because most of the social platforms on that list don’t really fit the mould of a town square in my eyes. WhatsApp, YouTube, Snapchat, FB, FB messenger and others I recognise aren’t shaped in ways that look like public debate and are generally more siloed or are creator platforms. Twitter seems to me more like an open free-for-all where any text can get amplified and publicly interacted with and very little is behind private accounts/groups/silos and anyone can easily contribute.