Just realizing something. I'd seen this in a lot of social movements I studied. One of the distorting impacts of social media is people confusing high-follower count with actual influence and/or status in broader world. For sure, it matters, but.. by no means is it a direct link.
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I see this sometimes people getting excessively mad at someone for some policy they support or oppose, when, in reality, they aren't really connected to the mechanisms that create/continue/change said policy. Sure, disagree, but important to keep the "anger" in proportion here.
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I don't mean to say ideas and "narrative power" doesn't matter. Of course it does! But that really, really doesn't translate directly either into proportional influence or representing influence or sometimes even the main/powerful ideas within a field. For better or worse.
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No, that's not what I'm talking about (though bots exist). There are people on here who may have huge followings but little direct influence beyond that voice (and people get mad at them as if they rule the world). And vice versa.https://twitter.com/Neferast/status/1360989038614876167 …
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there are many people i follow
#onhere because they're hilarious that have terrible public policy ideas that i ignoreThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I’ve seen some people who are extremely influential in their fields and have low follower counts on social media, mainly because they don’t care about it.
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And vice versa. There are people with the right PhD and/or credentials with a lot of following here but not much influence within said field. Nothing wrong with that! This "here" matters but people should try to keep things in perspective.
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I think a related flip side to this is all the criticisms of “Instagram activism” that popped up over the summer re: “it’s ineffective” — I have personally seen huge mindset shifts amongst peers that in some way connected back to things I shared via those small channels
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I feel vindicated. Thankyou.
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I wish twitter had a "seen by nn people" feature for posts as even followers often don't look at their newsfeed and thus the real impact of a post is unknown. Yes, some people are actually working in real life and don't bother posting.
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