Ecologia Digital"…while Facebook is now almost completely irrelevant to the political discourse, that isn’t quite true for Twitter.
But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came across a bubble chart depicting the Twitter accounts that had received the most “engagement” in February 2026. It was depressing: most of the top accounts were extremely low-quality and highly partisan. I hadn’t even heard of many of them and only follow a handful of the top accounts."
https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak-show
But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came across a bubble chart depicting the Twitter accounts that had received the most “engagement” in February 2026. It was depressing: most of the top accounts were extremely low-quality and highly partisan. I hadn’t even heard of many of them and only follow a handful of the top accounts."
https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak-show
