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Re:Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack? by fredoliveira on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:42AM (#23868533)
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 (#23869755)
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 (#23871617)
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.
Re:Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack? by wonderlg on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:51AM (#23868585)
True, 60% of those are Russian bots. /s