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Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by WheatMillington on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:51PM (#33088881)
There are two cohorts who dramatically overestimate Twitter's influence and importance - tech people and journalists. Twitter really is not very important. At my non tech workplace of 800 people, I'd be surprised if 50 were active on Twitter.
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Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by dlkf on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:20PM (#33090746)
“Most people aren’t on twitter” is not a valid argument against twitter’s influence. Compare with “most people aren’t CEOs”, “most people aren’t politicians,” etc.

Some people have a lot more influence than others, and the influential people are disproportionately on twitter.

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Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @03:00AM (#33092174)
> tech people and journalists

Also politicians.

That is the whole problem though, isn't it? A few hundred random people on Twitter are often more than enough to manufacture a wave of articles across multiple news websites and newspapers.

Twitter isn't important, the problem is that influential entities think that Twitter is important (and representative).

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Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by endorphinbomber on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @05:47AM (#33093268)
>Twitter isn't important, the problem is that influential entities think that Twitter is important (and representative).

Which makes it important..

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Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @06:55AM (#33093761)
Correct, as long as the illusion stays up.
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