Absolutely. Just the notion of Twitter as "the public square" — despite being used by just a tiny fraction of the public at large, and dominated by a small group of power-users that tend towards the most intense and polarizing rhetoric — exposes just how bizarre it is that we've created these artificial communities that seem bigger than they really are.
Absolutely. Just the notion of Twitter as "the public square" — despite being used by just a tiny fraction of the public at large, and dominated by a small group of power-users that tend towards the most intense and polarizing rhetoric — exposes just how bizarre it is that we've created these artificial communities that seem bigger than they really are.
Absolutely. Just the notion of Twitter as "the public square" — despite being used by just a tiny fraction of the public at large, and dominated by a small group of power-users that tend towards the most intense and polarizing rhetoric — exposes just how bizarre it is that we've created these artificial communities that seem bigger than they really are.