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>“Culturally relevant” is the one game that Twitter has won, far more than Facebook, and arguably more than Instagram i agree with this, but i don't think it f
by notatoad 3y ago
>“Culturally relevant” is the one game that Twitter has won, far more than Facebook, and arguably more than Instagram
i agree with this, but i don't think it fits nicely into the author's map of social networks. twitter is "bottom left", but their main threat for cultural dominance is tiktok, which is firmly "top right". being culturally relevant doesn't seem to have any relation to where a service falls on their map.
- PaulHoule 3y agoTwitter is “culturally relevant” in that events (actually most often “pseudo-events” as defined by Daniel Boorstein [1]) on Twitter frequently get amplified in other media. One example is the time somebody make a fake Eli Lilly account, tweeted “insulin is now free” and it is alleged this caused a temporary drop in Eli Lilly stock. A similar example is that time J.K. Rowling got dogpiled by gender activists. The key thing is that the reification in the media has a larger impact than the actual tweets which are viewed by far fewer people over a much shorter time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_event