The new silent majority: People who don't tweet
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#2that would be me. I go elsewhere where the grass is greener.
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#3I heard some nice tweets today. It was sunny, I was in the park, and the birds tweeted just beautiful!
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#4We perpetually rediscover this, and we're perpetually astonished.
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#5Twitter is a cesspool and it seems like the people who are disproportionately influential are all on Twitter.
I think it’s a bubble that should not have any political power, because it’s a cesspool!
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#6I don't engage on Twitter out of fear.
I sometimes see posts that I like and want to retweet but I don't because it means I'm endorsing everything the author has ever said or ever will say. It's not worth the risk.
People in my demographic face significant exposure to "cancelling" or ambushing for wrongthink. So it's best for me to avoid it entirely.
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#725% of Americans sometimes tweet? That seems very high. I only know a couple of people who use Twitter...
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#8I kept Twitter to "advertise" when I write technical blogs which I do very little of these days due to time.
I follow a bunch of tech type stuff I'm interested in, but honestly, it's become more of a place to vent and whine about this or that.
When I step back and look at it from afar, it's kinda what Facebook was when I left it a decade or so ago; people whining, and any subject worth commenting on is too controversial to do on the likes of Twitter where nuance is easily lost in so few characters.
I see no real need for me to be on Twitter anymore. I'm not on any other social networks aside from linkedin, which also seems to have lost its professional focus.
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#9Is there a link to a podcast or article that I'm missing? The authors throw out this big claim
> It turns out, you're right. We dug into the data and found that, in fact, most Americans are friendly, donate time or money, and would help you shovel your snow. They are busy, normal and mostly silent.
then follow it up with a couple disjointed statistics and then ends with
> The bottom line: Every current trend suggests politics will get more toxic before it normalizes. But the silent majority gives us hope beyond the nuttiness.
What?
The entire premise around how often people _send_ tweets also doesn't seem like a good foundation. Misinformation (to pick only one relevant thing about social) comes from _consuming_ media. The median user story is probably people skimming endless content (memes, news, etc.) not tweeting everything out.
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