>> The biggest thing Twitter did that nothing else could match was getting extremely specific or local news quickly. I think this is under-selling the differen

>> The biggest thing Twitter did that nothing else could match was getting extremely specific or local news quickly. I think this is under-selling the different items of value Twitter brings. For example, another thing that Twitter did was giving disenfranchised people a voice. Question for the group -- would the BLM movement have gained national following. Would George Floyd, or Central Park Karen ever have been heard of without Twitter? Growing up, I remember only 2 or 3 incidents that took the national scene. Yet these things happened hundreds of times and were almost wholly ignored until Twitter came along. I'd conclude it would not -- decades of Mainstream Media, both left and right -- gave only passing coverage to the issue. Growing up in Brooklyn I remember many events like this that would have been huge national conversations to never even get covered by the media of record.