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Re:Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for v... by courtf on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:53PM (#25696631)
These comments are hilarious, because people on the right vastly overestimate the size of their presence on the web. The traffic parler generates for AWS is a rounding error.

It's like complaining about shutting down the old chuck e cheese on the interstate.

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Re:Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for v... by bigwavedave on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:57PM (#25697245)
> people on the right vastly overestimate the size of their presence on the web.

Slightly off topic: This presents an interesting thought exercise- how would that stat be calculated? Does a dev with a github repo, Twitter account, and active account on a discord server have more or less of a presence on the web than a retiree with a Facebook account, two yahoos, and a google profile that frequently comments on the youtube videos they binge watch daily?

Not disputing, just musing.

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Re:Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for v... by kristofferR on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:21AM (#25697479)
Alexa is one way. TheDonald is the 419th most popular website in America for example.

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thedonald.win

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