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Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy by bobobob420 on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:51AM (#31111075)
Twitter is not a weapon. Most of the world does not give a hoot about anything that is going on twitter. You might get some new come up in celebrity gossip but that's really about it
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Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy by robonerd on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:36PM (#31111680)
Most people in the world don't have subscriptions to the NYTimes, but the influence of that newspaper seems undeniable. Percentage of the global population paying attention seems like a poor measure of influence, not least because actual influence is not fairly distributed through the global populations. Influence over 100 US senators counts for much more than influence over 100 US plumbers.
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Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:38PM (#31113505)
> Most of the world does not give a hoot

Correct, but journalists, politicians and companies do, which is all it needs. Twitter has been way more influential than it deserves to be for a while now.

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Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy by DevKoala on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:58AM (#31111202)
It does matter. A lot of people live in a bubble in which Twitter’s loudest voices are a reflection of the “common sense”. That is why so many governments monitor it.
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Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy by mcguire on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:58AM (#31111189)
The period between the Arab Spring and Jan, 2021, seems to argue otherwise, no?
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