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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It's a different thing altogether when we're talking about the platforms with which we carry out much of our public discourse and political campaigning.
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Like, I'm sorry, does anyone buy that you actually believe this?
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The fact that the active user base of twitter isn’t anything close to being representative of the population at large, but journalists behave as though it is.
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I don’t offer any opinions that aren’t expressed already in mainstream media sites. The only people who would find my comments at all unusual are those who get their news from twitter.
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For those here who get their news from twitter and won't bother going to the NYT
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Which is why people who use twitter and reddit for their frame of references are often shocked by things like election results, or figures showing most people still have cable and land lines.
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that's the narrative that has emerged from twitter and the media channels you use. But you're not taking into consideration that these channels are aimed at only a narrow slide of the electorate.
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When it comes to twitter, it's not even a lot. 20 per cent of Americans have active (used at least once a month) twitter accounts. Only half of those, about 10 per cent of Americans, use it daily.
Of course journalists are on it for hours every day. So they have a distorted sense of how popular and representative it is.
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But yeah, sure. Now it's where we carry out much of the public discourse. Now it's more like a utility essential to engagement with society!