> Twitter has by far become a more egregious platform for society
I don't really see how that can be true when only 20% of so of the population actually use Twitter. It's very small beans compared to Facebook, or YouTube for that matter.
Policy makers, journalists, and educators tend to use twitter pretty extensively. What happens on twitter affects the worldview of just about every journalist out there. Don't like the current ideological capture of journalism on both sides of the US political spectrum? Blame twitter for a significant portion of that.
I don't really see how that can be true when only 20% of so of the population actually use Twitter. It's very small beans compared to Facebook, or YouTube for that matter.