Don't interrupt your counterpart while he makes your point for you.

Fascinating. He makes an argument about twitter and then all the twitter users prove him right.

Just watched a two-hour focus group about American politics.

Here's a few thoughts about it, in no particular order.

1) Twitter is not the real world. Twitter is not the real world. Twitter is not the real world. Don't believe me? Go talk (or listen) to some voters.

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— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) June 12, 2020

Only about 20% of the population uses Twitter and about 10% of Twitter uses generate 80% of the content. The profile of users, particularly power-users, is markedly skewed from the population. It is basically the Mandarin Class conducting teacher's lounge debates with the intensity of adolescents and the breadth of knowledge of school children. Emotional conviction and moral certitude about the most marginal of presumptions and opinions is the norm.

It is unremarkable to claim that "1) Twitter is not the real world. Twitter is not the real world. Twitter is not the real world."

And yet the bottom-feeding scavengers show up to immediately misconstrue the argument or deny the empirical reality.

Since the newspapers no longer provide breadth or quality that they once did, I celebrate the access to diverse knowledge represented by Twitter despite its essential chaos and anarchy. But that value does not make it representative of anything.