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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.
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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...

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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.

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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...
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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.
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