Why Twitter May Be Ruinous for the Left - The Atlantic
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It’s a machine for misunderstanding other people’s ideas and identities. How do you even organize that?
Something odd happened this week on Twitter: A hashtag became the most popular topic in the country by accident. After Senator Elizabeth Warren brushed away the handshake of Senator Bernie Sanders in the moments following a debate, Sanders supporters—or at least alleged Sanders supporters— began to tweet #NeverWarren . Several left-leaning journalists and online Sanders surrogates noticed the rising phrase and sent tweets opposing it. But since their tweets accumulated likes and retweets, they only made the hashtag itself more popular. The algorithm that determines the social network’s most po
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