Despite its relatively limited user base in Pakistan, Twitter holds an outsize importance in the policy sphere. AP/File
Despite its relatively limited user base in Pakistan, Twitter holds an outsize importance in the policy sphere. Pretty much every issue and non-issue is hotly debated, with some threads almost as long as books, by people looking to do some quick intellectual vomiting. But instead of a diversity in opinion, you end up seeing the same two boilerplate takes that more or less everyone subscribes to, no matter how reductive.
One such post that attracted Pakistan’s technologically inclined Twitterati the past week was by a former Goldman Sachs and Andreseen Horowitz executive in India on the JIO effect: how Mukesh Ambani’s conglomerate’s bet on providing free, and subsequently subsidised, internet led to a digital boom in the country.