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Cake day: May 26th, 2023

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  • I never really used twitter much, so take this as you will. I’m not sure twitter was considered small. Many many celebrities, politicians, journalists, etc were on there. It was a platform where breaking news would happen regularly. It may be a uniquely US thing, but I considered it a very important platform for a while (even though i rarely used it myself). The “townsquare” metaphor i think was pretty accurate for the longest time. Unlike something like facebook where you mostly interact with your actual friends, or reddit where you interact with total strangers and hold on to some relative anonymity; twitter was where many notable celebs had public facing profiles where they would make announcements and have public conversations.

    I know many people who are “addicted to twitter” where they’re sick of the platform with its negativity and the rise of the alt right and low levels of censorship, yet continue to use it regularly.

    I wouldn’t say elon and twitter broadly influenced the election, but i think its reasonable to say that it had some effect in swaying public opinion.