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ivanche
on July 17, 2020
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Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
Around 96% of world population is outside the US. Consider your biases indeed.
ubercow13
on July 17, 2020
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What about the internet-using population? Supposedly only 60% of the world uses the internet whereas almost all of the US population does
https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-populatio...
magnio
on July 17, 2020
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250 million non-US users to 4.3 billion Internet users (excluding the US) is about 5.8%. Compared that to 23% in the US.
Twitter is very US-centric.
viklove
on July 17, 2020
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If Twitter is 20% American users, how can that be considered "US-centric?" The vast majority of Twitter's users are not in the US...
ubercow13
on July 17, 2020
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Because the conversation was about Americans taking Twitter too seriously, not Twitter's discourse being dominated by Americans. The relevant metric seems to be the percentage of each population using twitter.
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