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Originally Posted by Table 5
I posted this in the other thread, but:
• Twitter is the 15th biggest social media network by community, barely beating Reddit and Quora. I think people over-estimate its global impact.
• If immense power by one voice is a concern with Twitter, how do people feel about 4 out of the Top 5 social media communities being controlled by Meta/Zuckerberg?
• Rightly or wrongly, the media has always been owned by a few elite rich people. Whether it's Rupert Murdoch owning Newscorp, Bezos owning the Washington Post, the Sulzberger family owning the NYTimes...there's always a rich guy at the top. Why is this instance any different? |
Keep in mind a lot of the power of twitter in elections and media headlines is that what's said on there gets repeated and used as the basis for stories and discussion, regardless of who's actually on there and clicking on tweets, see: Donald Trump dominating headlines on all media platforms mostly due to tweets being discussed.
Along with twitter being much bigger for news than some of those other ones.