Welcome to the conversations that matter of podcast. My name is John Harris. This is a very quick episode about

Twitter and a question I've gotten about it, but I've been saving it. John why aren't you on it? Why did you get off

Twitter for those who know I was on it for a few years and should we get off Twitter

right that's another question that I want to address in this and the answer to the second question is I don't know

Depending on who you are and what you use it for maybe you should stay on but I think for most of us

My answer is gonna be yeah probably get off and I'm not legalistic about it not

saying you have to I'm not saying you can't be salt and light on Twitter as a

Christian but I'm just saying I've noticed some trends that concern me and that's

what I want to talk about today so number one one, what is Twitter? That's a question I want to ask. I think I

lied to myself internally about this. I thought, well Twitter is a level playing field in which

different ideas are brought to the marketplace of ideas and they wage war

against one another and you're attempting to expose people to ideas you know it's like

back in the ancient Greek Greco-Roman days when the philosophers would come out to the public square.

Or it's like the pubs of Scotland and Ireland in Britain

when people would go to discuss the day's events and no no it's not no it's not

those things in fact it's more like a playground where the bullies have

advantage and it's run by bigger bullies and that's what I realized it's not a level playing field in fact

2019 Pew research is before the purges

ten percent of the users create 80% of the tweets. So you have a very small number of people

creating the tweets. Now who are those people? Well I'd like to submit to you that

they're generally people who are going to be more brash, brazen on the conservative side.

They're the ones that own the left on the left-to-side.

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