“Quatar”, an incorrect spelling of “Qatar”, was trending on Twitter the other day.
Twitter has an estimated 190 million users. Qatar has an estimated population of 1.6 million people.
Given that it was a trending topic, it’s relatively safe to assume that more than the population of Qatar itself was talking about ‘Quatar’.
Thus, if you subscribe to the idea that the definition of any philosophical or ideological principle (in this case a country, but you could go with ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ or ‘mad’) is defined either by consensus or majority, you’d be forced to admit that Twitter, however briefly, renamed a country.
