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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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