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Ep. 189: Why Did The Times Drop Twitter?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Impact of Twitter on Politics
There are something like 15 million active twitter users in the us. And then a even smaller percentage of them that are actually using it a lot to do political dialect, but they ar having this huge influence on what was being written. There's a photo going around during the recent supreme court at confirmation hearings, purportedly of ted crews checking his twitter reactions under the desk right after he was done with his confirmation. So, like it, twitter is having this huge outsize influence, and it's so few people who are on it, and it’s so non representative.
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