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There are ~260 million adults in the US. That gives 60,000,000 Twitter users and 28,000,000 daily users. (I don't think "active users" is useful---it's about readers, not writers. Further, many of the important writers are not from the US.)

In 2020, Biden received 81,000,000 versus Trump's 74,000,000; the difference is 7,000,000.

Facebook may well be more powerful, but Twitter is still matters.



> but Twitter is still matters

I REALLY doubt it. Of the 28,000,000 daily users, mind you that means they open it once a day, 70% get news from the app. Of those only 37% say it increases their political engagement. This is roughly 7 million people who report any change in political engagement in the US as a result of looking at twitter. These people are overwhelmingly democrats living in big cities. I'm just not convinced that such a narrow, concentrated slice (2.7% of adults) of the the US population is really that big of a deal.

Now you could make a case that twitter maybe matters more in other places outside of the US, but that's not really related to the trump/no trump issue that I was replying to originally.




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