I just did a super take with a sibling comment to yours comparing Twitter to other social media and comm products.
> Twitter is an also-ran. Which is absolutely, utterly, unabashedly insane to think.
Yes, this is absolutely crazy!
The other problem is how much Twitter is brought up by people and the media. Data shows a minority of the already minority of people who use Twitter, talk politics. Yet you can’t go any time without people pointing to Twitter as a representation of a huge population to prove their points.
For example, reactions to “cancelling” someone will have droves of people and media point to a tiny portion of Twitter saying things that can’t represent the massive demographic people are critiquing.
All of this makes Twitter seem so much more important even to people not constantly around tech, startup, or SV circles.
>All of this makes Twitter seem so much more important even to people not constantly around tech, startup, or SV circles.
I hate saying this, but Twitter does have outsized importance even to people not in said circles. That's because there's a concentration of influence on Twitter. Politicians, celebrities and especially journalists are on twitter. That means that the Twitter bubble can both diverge from the general population, then have an disproportionate impact on them.
Comes to mind the scene in Heinlein's Glory Road where the hero stuffs the hostile giant's foot in the giant's own mouth, and pushes hard. Keeps pushing etc, until there's only a ball of wax to dispose of.
(Sidekick's comment: "Didn't know you were good at advanced math.")
> Twitter is an also-ran. Which is absolutely, utterly, unabashedly insane to think.
Yes, this is absolutely crazy!
The other problem is how much Twitter is brought up by people and the media. Data shows a minority of the already minority of people who use Twitter, talk politics. Yet you can’t go any time without people pointing to Twitter as a representation of a huge population to prove their points.
For example, reactions to “cancelling” someone will have droves of people and media point to a tiny portion of Twitter saying things that can’t represent the massive demographic people are critiquing.
All of this makes Twitter seem so much more important even to people not constantly around tech, startup, or SV circles.