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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
12 Apr 2017 Conversations with Tyler Patrick Collison has a Few Questions for Tyler (Live at Stripe)
“Underrated, and I think Trump has shown how powerful it is. Again, you don’t have to agree with his tweets, but it’s woken the world up that Twitter is not just some inferior Facebook that never was going to turn out to be anything.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 12 Apr 2017
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…And Twitter itself, over- or underrated? Underrated, and I think Trump has shown how powerful it is. Again, you don’t have to agree with his tweets, but it’s woken the world up that Twitter is not just some inferior Facebook that never was going to turn out to be anything. It’s extraordinarily powerful. People in Iran have known this for a long time. It will stay important and powerful. I think it’s still very, very underrated, actually. As a commercial venture, I couldn’t say, but it’s a force for shaping society. You use Twitter but not Facebook. Why is that?…
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