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Originally Posted by Lemurion
It's impossible for anyone to help build a consensus about something they do not know exists. The problem with twitter and the internet in general is that it tends toward fragmentation and multiple non-intersecting communities rather than a single whole.
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There never was a single whole. That is ridiculous. In the 1950s did people in Australia care what Americans were doing? No. And vice versa. Sports journalists weren't chatting daily with Middle English poetry readers.
Further, makes no logical sense either. Now there are far more people talking directly to each other - even internationally - about this sort of thing than there ever were in the past. In real time, even. No carrier pigeons, sea mail or exorbitant (or impossible) international telephony needed.
Also, there are far more people, period. So it is far easier to get to whatever the mythical 'consensus' number of the past that people are in fear of.