If people didn’t look at Twitter, they wouldn’t get all worked up by all the tweets. What we are seeing now is the old people reacting to Twitter as if it were opinion polls. The young people tweet, retweet, then they are on to the next big meme. Old people read tweets and think oh my god look what people are thinking, and they do things to correct the subject of the tweets. Next day, nobody cares.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Sorry for mixing Orwellaphors.