As the article states, approximately 2% of the US population are active Twitter users. That’s about 7 million people, slightly or somewhat skewed to the left/progressive side of things. So, let’s say 4 million of them are leftie-progressives, all Tweeting and agitating for the destruction of the west.
Meanwhile, 800,000 people applied for tickets for Trump’s first post-lockdown rally in Tulsa. I don’t suppose many of them are on Twitter.
I don’t have the data but I am sure it will be similar here in the UK. It makes me wonder why politicians bother to take any notice of it. It seems to me to be nothing more than an online mob.
More to the point, 98% aren’t users. The silent majority are clearly silent with their thumbs as well as with their voices.
Nicholas Rynn
3 years ago
There’s good reason why it’s irreverently known as the “Twattersphere”. What constantly amazes me is that journalists accept twitter as considered thought, and are amazed when their preconceptions fail to meet the reality test.
Yes, and then went ballistic when Trump won in 2016. It didn’t occur to them for one second that the rest of the planet may not share their views.
mccaffc
3 years ago
As new platforms are piled on to new media, the long term trend is away from meaningful politics. Herbert Marcuse in the 60s coined the phrase “closing the universe of discourse”.
As the article states, approximately 2% of the US population are active Twitter users. That’s about 7 million people, slightly or somewhat skewed to the left/progressive side of things. So, let’s say 4 million of them are leftie-progressives, all Tweeting and agitating for the destruction of the west.
Meanwhile, 800,000 people applied for tickets for Trump’s first post-lockdown rally in Tulsa. I don’t suppose many of them are on Twitter.
I don’t have the data but I am sure it will be similar here in the UK. It makes me wonder why politicians bother to take any notice of it. It seems to me to be nothing more than an online mob.
More to the point, 98% aren’t users. The silent majority are clearly silent with their thumbs as well as with their voices.
There’s good reason why it’s irreverently known as the “Twattersphere”. What constantly amazes me is that journalists accept twitter as considered thought, and are amazed when their preconceptions fail to meet the reality test.
Yes, and then went ballistic when Trump won in 2016. It didn’t occur to them for one second that the rest of the planet may not share their views.
As new platforms are piled on to new media, the long term trend is away from meaningful politics. Herbert Marcuse in the 60s coined the phrase “closing the universe of discourse”.