re: #340 danarchy

I would argue that it never was. The laziest “news” articles ever were the “look at this twitter exchange” or “Look how pissed twitter users are” articles that were basically just reposts of tweete with some filler.

Twitter was never a representation of the real world and now it is even worse.

i dont know how much the numbers have changed since 1999 2019

Only 22% of Americans are on Twitter at all. Also, 80% of the Twitter content is created by 10% of its users. In case you don’t have a calculator handy, this means that 2% of Americans create 80% of the content on Twitter. So Twitter is not representative of anything other than the 2% of the population that spends its whole day tweeting. Yet the media act like if something is trending on Twitter, then the whole country is talking about it and it is important. Nope and nope again.