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I think its ridiculous hyperbole to call this a global phenomenon if they are looking at tweets. Less than a quarter of Americans use the site, a proportion that skews educated/wealthy/white, and of all twitter users something like 8% of accounts are responsible for 80% of tweets.

So why is so much being written and thought and discussed about whats really just the rampant spam of maybe 2% of Americans? Probably because twitter has a ticker.