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Comment by marcus_holmes

that's very clever, and I'm sure the ~42 people who get to see the entire stream of tweets will be very persuaded by it. And since most of those people work in media, it may even lead to an article which might be read by a few thousand people.

Don't get me wrong: I think online "propaganda" can be effective - just not on Twitter, because of its scale and primary audience.

But because Twitter is more transparent it gets analysed more. I guess you could make the argument that the same people are doing the same things on FB and Whatsapp, but it's difficult to see how those messages propagate so well.

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