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Speaking of biases, English-speaking twitter is a powervul vector bringing US biases (whatever they are) through the world.

I have to regularly stop and check that "ha, yes, that's a very USA-centric take on things and does not represent reality outside of it".

Just like Hollywood.

Around 96% of world population is outside the US. Consider your biases indeed.

What about the internet-using population? Supposedly only 60% of the world uses the internet whereas almost all of the US population does

https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-populatio...

250 million non-US users to 4.3 billion Internet users (excluding the US) is about 5.8%. Compared that to 23% in the US.

Twitter is very US-centric.

If Twitter is 20% American users, how can that be considered "US-centric?" The vast majority of Twitter's users are not in the US...

Because the conversation was about Americans taking Twitter too seriously, not Twitter's discourse being dominated by Americans. The relevant metric seems to be the percentage of each population using twitter.

True, 60% of those are Russian bots. /s