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Twitter Is Not as Important as Journalists Make It Seem

Just 10 percent of users on the platform are responsible for 80 percent of tweets. Yet, one reader argues, Twitter exerts outsize power and influence on our public discourse.
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Why Twitter May Be Ruinous for the Left

Twitter exhibits a curiously tight grip on American culture, last month. Tweets are embedded in news stories, screencapped for Instagram, and quoted on TV shows and podcasts. The platform, however, can also people’s ideas and identities, he writes: “On Twitter, ideas are

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