http://american-rattlesnake.org/2016...-twitterverse/

One of the most interesting social media platforms-and aside from Facebook itself, the most popular one in the English language-is Twitter. The evangelists of this global means of communication would claim it’s responsible for catalyzing a host of revolutions within otherwise repressed dictatorships, while its critics might describe it as a meaningless echo chamber which others use to exploit journalistic credulity.

Even as its user base declines and it struggles to find a viable revenue model, it can’t be denied that Twitter exerts an outsized influence, if only upon the narratives crafted by the mainstream news media. A perfect example being the current imbecilic campaign led by social justice warriors to turn an iconic Marvel hero into a gay man.
That’s why the suppression of non-leftist perspectives on this platform is such an important issue, regardless of how one might view the utility of Twitter itself.

It not only bolsters the already skewed terms of debate by both feeding an extraordinarily lazy, monolithic media fuel and denying the opportunity for genuinely fresh voices to be heard...