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@gerikson @Soyweiser It is funny, because by 99% of media sites Twitter was always one of the Three Big Ones: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. Those were the social networks that were linked TO, and also the social networks media followed. MAYBE Linked In, if it was a ā€œbusinessā€ publication.

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Twitter had outsized impact because itā€™s where the journalists hung out, and structurally it was much more everyone in the same place than FB/IG

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@dgerard Plus you get to write articles about ā€œTwitter Stormsā€ about your articles.

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I realized Twitter was for weirdo wonks when the local ā€œIdolā€ reality show just had IG links for the contestants (Sweden). There might be markets where Twitter is locally bigger, but in Sweden it was always a niche thing.

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