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Over 85% of the US is not on twitter. It's not at all comparable to television.

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Only 36% pays for cable TV. Seems pretty comparable to me.

https://www.cablecompare.com/blog/us-cable-subscriber-statis...

That's a higher percentage of the population than those who voted for the winning candidate in the last presidential election.

I wouldn't say that's comparable to ~15%.

There's a pretty radical difference between the statements "I don't have cable" and "I don't even own a TV".

I know lots of people who spend an immensely unhealthy amount of time in front of TVs (even me from time to time, not judging), and few of them have a cable subscription.

Over 60% uses Twitter in Japan, behind only to LINE and YouTube. Also comparable if English was not language of business.

If anyone's curious, 98.4% of US households had television in the mid 90s (most likely the peak). In 1960 it was 90%.

And I would wager that the numbers are still very similar. One doesn't need to pay for cable TV to watch TV these days.

If you're implying ~60% of the pop is pirating cable I don't believe it's anywhere near that high

edit: oh I think you meant streaming-only. Yeah, maybe a lot higher...I don't have a good gauge on that

Streaming only, OTA+streaming, etc.

The only people I know under the age of 40 with "cable TV" use it pretty much exclusively to watch sports.

Yes and even streaming on non-TV devices is kind of a modern continuation of TVs since you can consume the same crap there.

Are you forgetting about broadcast TV? NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX are enough for most households. Cable isn't the value-add that it used to be.

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