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    1 year ago

    Following this on Twitter gives me existential dread.

    Anti-vax sentiment dominates the threads, carried by some of the most influential people in the world and an army of blue check sycophants. Genuinely horrifying.

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      1 year ago

      How “influential” are they really, though?

      Sure, Joe Rogan has many listeners, but Twitter is pretty much irrelevant for the vast majority of people. It’s a bubble of people who think their opinion is worth blasting out. It only seems relevant because journalists are part of this bubble.

      Twitter had (according to its own numbers) 77mio daily active users in the US. That sounds a lot, but if you discount all the bots and people who just use is as a glorified RSS reader, the actual numbers are much lower.