This suggests that have indeed overestimated Twitter's influence even amongst demographics using it actively.
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(Note, however, that I would probably not have come across the article linked on the tweet I quoted at the start of this thread were it not for Twitter).
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So how do we really 'measure' a media platform's 'influence'? And how do we define it? Not sure number of active users is enough, or even a key metric.
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Surely history is full of examples where a relative minority is influential initiating and defining wider social changes?
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One could always argue that there is an anti-Twitter bias in critiques of Twitter's over-representation in the media and research.
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What is it about Twitter's presence or 'over-representation' in news media and research that irks so many?
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No doubt researchers and journalists prefer to work with data they can easily and promptly access and reuse.
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So no one would deny Whatsapp's overwhelming influence in how people communicate today, but this is not data we can just tap into.
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Once again this is not to deny Twitter is the focus of unnecessary/unimportant attention in the media and research.
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...but, to close this looping thread, isn't that one way of 'measuring',or assessing, a medium's "influence"?
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It's a bit of a strange article. It says that the average person isn't on Twitter/doesn't care about Twitter (fair point) and that the people in the industries that use it heavily get a lot out of it (without any analysis or data).
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