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> Twitter is where the world goes today

That's a pretty twitter-centric view of things

See this https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...

I have no clue where the hell people get this "public square" analogy from because the numbers don't back it

It might be because most of the social platforms on that list don’t really fit the mould of a town square in my eyes. WhatsApp, YouTube, Snapchat, FB, FB messenger and others I recognise aren’t shaped in ways that look like public debate and are generally more siloed or are creator platforms.

Twitter seems to me more like an open free-for-all where any text can get amplified and publicly interacted with and very little is behind private accounts/groups/silos and anyone can easily contribute.

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