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Sadly, for most people Twitter is mainstream media.

Twitter is not that popular. The problem is that mainstream journalists spend too much time on it and confuse it for the real world. How many "news" stories are just repackaged tweets? A lot.

What is the definition of "mainstream"?

> Twitter is not that popular.

https://www.similarweb.com/website/twitter.com Global Rank: 6 Country Rank: 9 Visits: 3.93B

https://www.similarweb.com/website/cnn.com Global Rank: 101 Country Rank: 29 Visits: 476.20M

https://www.similarweb.com/website/nytimes.com Global Rank: 180 Country rank: 58 Visits: 278.41M

To be fair, many (most?) mainstream journalists are extremely active on Twitter.

In my opinion that is very unfortunate.

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