Re:Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
by cjohansson on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:12AM
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This is true I think. Twitter is mostly a US thing
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Re:Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
by fredoliveira on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:42AM
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Consider your biases. 80% of twitter users are outside the US [0], [1].
[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/274565/monthly-active-in... [1]: https://www.omnicoreagency.com/twitter-statistics/
Re:Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
by Juliate on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:12AM
(#23868708)
Speaking of biases, English-speaking twitter is a powervul vector bringing US biases (whatever they are) through the world.
I have to regularly stop and check that "ha, yes, that's a very USA-centric take on things and does not represent reality outside of it".
Re:Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
by DonHopkins on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:19AM
(#23869369)
Just like Hollywood.
Re:Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
by ivanche on Friday July 17, 2020 @08:22AM
(#23869720)
Around 96% of world population is outside the US. Consider your biases indeed.
Re:Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
by ubercow13 on Friday July 17, 2020 @08:28AM
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What about the internet-using population? Supposedly only 60% of the world uses the internet whereas almost all of the US population does
https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-populatio...
Re:Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
by magnio on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:18AM
(#23870143)
250 million non-US users to 4.3 billion Internet users (excluding the US) is about 5.8%. Compared that to 23% in the US.
Twitter is very US-centric.
Re:Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
by viklove on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:32AM
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If Twitter is 20% American users, how can that be considered "US-centric?" The vast majority of Twitter's users are not in the US...
Re:Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
by ubercow13 on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:40PM
(#23872427)
Because the conversation was about Americans taking Twitter too seriously, not Twitter's discourse being dominated by Americans. The relevant metric seems to be the percentage of each population using twitter.