Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Twitter Rolls Out the Red Carpet for the Taliban" video.

  1. 100,000 out of 5,000,000,000 (since twitter has global reach) amounts to 0.002%...and Styx says 100k twitter followers is significant?! If you say so! I'M not much impressed with the proportion; I'd consider it insignificant, in the aggregate. I'm sure it's an impressive figure in a small enough context, or "bubble". 100,000 out of 200,000,000 twitter users amounts to 0.05%, so I assume that's the proportion Styx is referencing. 0.04% of the world's population uses twitter (i.e. 200 million/5 billion). I find the 0.05 <=> 0.04 comparison provocative: about the same proportion of the twitteratti followed as the global population that uses twitter...always on the lookout for patterns...
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