2022-12-22 02:47:09
Twitter users are not representative of the US population, or of US voters: - Only about 25% of Twitter's traffic is from the US. [Link] - Only about 23% of US adults have accounts on Twitter. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(135-26-52) Author
2022-12-22 17:32:00
Not only are Twitter users not representative of US adults, but only a tiny minority of Twitter users even voted on this poll. There are over 238M "daily active users" on Twitter: [Link] The poll has 3,111,041 votes, a little over 1% of all Twitter users. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(12-0-8) Author
2022-12-22 17:39:10
While not all of the US is on Twitter, and some voters may even be outside of the US, the concept of polling is to get a sample size and extrapolate from there. 3 million users w/ margin of error is a valid sample size to conclude a public opinion. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(4-1-9) Author
2022-12-22 18:00:25
Twitter users are not necessarily representative of the US population, or of US voters: - Approximately 25% of Twitter's traffic is from the US, and only 23% of US adults have accounts on Twitter. [Link][Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(16-1-6) Author
2022-12-22 19:17:51
No context required: I hope people are intelligent enough to realize that a poll on Twitter is not a statistically accurate tool. I think context is only needed in places where a reasonable person might not understand. NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(3-2-4) Author
2022-12-23 14:41:52
Community Notes is leaning off-mission & this is a prime example. Curating content is the job of a PUBLICATION, not a free platform ruled by section-230. ALL of these notes belong in the comments section only. Serve better by developing a comment rating system like Reddit. CURRENTLY_RATED_NOT_HELPFUL(0-0-2) Author