[supercanuck]

What is wrong with using Twitter as a source? This is how people communicate in 2019

What method would serve you better?

[dspillett]

The issue being taken here isn't specifically twitter as a source but "a handful of tweets" as the source. Extrapolating/exaggerating from a very small sample of views into the impression of a mass movement.

It is like asking a couple of random people if they know me, getting negative responses, and using them as the basis for an article about the mysterious Dave person who no one seems to know anything about.

[supercanuck]

Is the point of the article valid?

Should People be concerned about their privacy?

Or should we not consider that thought until we collect a representative sample size?

[JohnFen]

> This is how people communicate in 2019

This is how a certain demographic communicates in 2019. Twitter does not represent society as a whole.

[MichaelApproved]

It's purely anecdotal. Nothing meaningful.

Did these people even own Fitbits in the first place? Have they even been using them recently? How many have actually thrown them away?

It's representative of nothing.

[metalchianti]

Much news relies on anecdotes. Some of which are anonymous (aka unsubstantiated) while still involving issues higher stakes. Media is about clicks and influence.

[magashna]

Obviously man on the street is more legitimate.

[cameronbrown]

Everyone uses streets. Only a certain set of the population (usually left leaning & young) use Twitter.

[patrickk]

Twitter is also overrun by propaganda bots and those peddling an agenda (e.g. Tesla perma-shorts).