Is the twitter mob really a minority?

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15#.hr22nda85

One of the best articles you could read to understand modern world.

Yes they are a minority. Only a small percentage of people even have twitter accounts. They have effect because the whole industrial media bows down to them Andy people are cowards.

Let's not forget some Twitter users have multiple accounts. Sometime MANY multiple accounts to booster their own Twits.

Disproportionately loud voices. Twitter is skewed and unrepresentative of the general US population to begin with, and a study showed that 80% of tweets were posted by only 10% of users, the most radical, fringe segment of a skewed cohort to begin with. Yet businesses have been suckered into paying attention and pandering to the twitter mob over the past decade, with the effect of jerking society significantly to the left from the top down. Media also bows to them, magnifying its impact.

The tactics involved matter too. While conservatives and libertarians spent years taking humorous (well deserved) pot shots at protesting and boycotting "outrage", the far left kept doing it anyway. They established a boycott/pressure infrastructure to whine and target companies or advertisers at the drop of a hat. Conservatives didn't.

In a game of tug of war if only one side is pulling the rope is only going to go in one direction.