Tweeting into the void

Published April 29, 2022 3:00am ET



The political commentariat is in a frenzy over Tesla CEO Elon Musk taking over Twitter. The real world? It couldn’t care less.

While liberal commentators panic over what this change in leadership means for the world’s 15th-largest social media platform, the vast majority of people will simply go on with their everyday lives. In 2019, Pew Research Center determined that just 22% of adults in the United States used Twitter. Of that group, the top 10% were responsible for 80% of tweets from U.S. users on the website.

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