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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Mar 6
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      When people say "Twitter is not real life," just remember that the whole Omar controversy *started* on Twitter, and now it's roiling the entire Congress and could presage a permanent split in the Democratic Party. So yes, Twitter does "matter" whether you like it or not

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    2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Mar 6
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      Trump could very well not be president without Twitter. John Bolton is currently trying to foment regime change in Venezuela with a Twitter-centric strategy. AOC now has insane levels of political leverage due almost exclusively to Twitter. It "matters" more than we appreciate

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Mar 6
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      Does Twitter have distorting effects? Yes, of course. If you don't use Twitter with self-awareness, it can make you assume that your feed is representative of the wider US population. But that's different from saying it "doesn't matter," as certain world-weary types often do

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        2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Mar 6
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          I’ve been hearing doom-saying about Twitter since I first joined the platform 10 years ago. And yet, it just keeps growing in influence. No reason to believe that’s gonna change any time soon

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        3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Mar 6
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          Also, Twitter provides a window into the thinking of political and media elites that previously would’ve been inaccessible to the public. That can be easy to lose sight of. But it’s a radical change in how ordinary people relate to their powerful overseers

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        4. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Mar 6
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          The massive and growing influence of the platform is all the more reason to be extremely concerned when people are booted off on spurious grounds. You are depriving them of something hugely consequential. Anyways, that’s enough for now. Need to get back to browsing twitter

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        1. FREE ENERGY Ends Central Bank Tyranny‏ @TheRedMantisEye Mar 6
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          Twitter is the single most influential social media application on Earth currently. It's a hub for nodes.

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        1. Bart Anderson‏ @bart_e_anderson Mar 6
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          Love this Tweet series, Michael. Social media isn't going away. Those who can master it will have an outsize influence.

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        2. Matt Johnson ☭‏ @chac65 Mar 6
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          Twitter inevitably creates social bubbles of like minded people that think they represent the broader population. Groupthink is the inevitable outcome.

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        3. Matt Johnson ☭‏ @chac65 Mar 6
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          People think the "ratio" actually means something other than a person expressing an unpopular opinion within a differing opinion bubble. The outcome is blocking and unfollows reinforcing these bubbles and enforcing groupthink.

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        1. Oops! The Planet! ⓥ‏ @TippingElements Mar 6
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          Yeah, I have to beware of that. I am not sure it alters power or gets people organized doing things as much as reproduces power & makes people idle. It gets people to sit at home believing they are, tho. That’s the danger.

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        2. Kyle Style Podcast‏ @KStylePodcast Mar 6
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          People do need to take the epistemology of their feeds seriously. I'm aware that I follow biased accounts. What I do with what I find there is the main concern.

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        1. Lord Commander‏ @MitchLeeD763 Mar 6
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          Go on JRE!

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        1. S. Harp‏ @SHarp56_ Mar 6
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          Assume it represents the wider population is exactly what much of the MSM does.

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        2. Joanne Leon‏ @joanneleon Mar 6
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          "At least Bolton has some cred" You can't be serious. He's a walking, talking foreign policy disaster with a moustache who failed upward. For decades.

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        2. Yanasteel  ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️‏ @Yanasteel Mar 6
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          If #MSM did their jobs properly people would follow the news but sadly they hv lost the plot and the people hv realized that they r useless.

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