r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes

Re:r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit... by afavour on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:30PM (#36250823)

I agree that Twitter is far from dead but you’re choosing a bad example.

> The main Twitter video view metric is triggered when a user watches a video for at least 2 seconds and sees at least 50% of the video player in-view.

So anyone that had the (auto playing) video in view for two seconds as they scrolled through their feed. Multiplied by the number of times it’s in their feed. It’s a pretty meaningless number.

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Re:r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit... by willcipriano on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:34PM (#36250867)

How about:

> 845.9K Likes

> 237.6K Retweets

In a day and a half for a ten minute video of a guy in his basement talking. It isn't even a video platform.

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Re:r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit... by afavour on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:41PM (#36250953)

But what is the argument here? 237k retweets is a lot, sure. This tweet from 2020 has 883k retweets and is just four photos:

https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1296701109340237824

So does 237k retweets in 2023 mean the network is as vital as it was in 2020? I have no idea what basis this argument is being made on.

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Re:r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit... by belltaco on Thursday June 08, 2023 @09:01PM (#36251744)

Does it mean Twitter is dead though? That's the basis of this thread.

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Re:r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit... by afavour on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:20AM (#36257425)

That’s exactly my point. A tweet with 237k retweets was thrown out as a evidence that it’s not dead but I’m asking on what basis 237k is a lot or not a lot.

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Re:r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit... by davidcbc on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:39PM (#36250929)

Given how easy it is to have bot farms promote tweets I don't think this is a valid metric to use

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Re:r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit... by nostromo on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:59PM (#36251109)

If you think that’s bad, wait until you hear how they measure broadcast and cable television viewership.

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Re:r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit... by afavour on Thursday June 08, 2023 @08:07PM (#36251179)

What does that have to do with Twitter’s popularity, though?

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Re:r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit... by rafark on Thursday June 08, 2023 @09:50PM (#36252119)

How

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