Didn't really sink in until now but, all those high-profile accounts that don't follow people simply don't have access to most of the information available. Even if the people themselves would understand, they've cordoned themselves off, inadvertently insulated from information.

I'm not sure if there's anything that can be done about it. Twitter doesn't allow you to just follow everyone back who follows you if it's a lot so they can never actually catch up. They've missed all of the significant events if this is true. At least we know how it happened.

It's somewhat comforting in that I'd been trying to figure out how so many people who really should understand what's happening weren't seeming to. I was starting to think it might be chemical interventions in prescriptions or something in the water. Seriously, I was mystified.

Explains a weird phenomenon I can only call a 'digital blank stare' when making an off-hand comment about something and not seeming to evoke the expected response. They must've thought I was nuts, lol. Maybe we can use them as test subjects for rapid deprogramming in real world.