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This comment hit the nail on the head. I feel like I played right into his hands. But what is a person to do?

remember the real reason he bought Twitter was to influence the 2024 election and stop any kind of leftist organizing on the site

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[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Remember the real reason ~~Elon Musk~~ the Saudis and Russians bought Twitter for Musk was to influence the 2024 election and stop any sort of leftist organizing or media on the site.

FTFY

[–] arquebus_x@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think people have a very skewed understanding of how much influence Twitter has on elections. Facebook, yes. Google, sure. But Twitter? Twitter is tiny.

Twitter, as of last year, had about 238 million daily active users, or roughly 3% of the total world population.

Facebook had 3 billion. That's more than 1/3 the population of the planet.

TikTok is roughly 1 billion. Instagram, 500M. Hell, even Snapchat is higher, at around 380-400M.