Re:Social media traffic to top news sites craters
by jauntywundrkind on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:17AM
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I wonder how much X/Twitter turning to noise has affected this.
Even if traffic directly from Twitter wasn't necessarily a big portion of incoming traffic, I feel like Twitter was a place that many people were using to hear about links, which would then get reshared around. People are exposed to a lot less variety now, with many folks dispersed elsewhere and the noise being so high on twitter/x. Our masses of friends are no longer there to help surface the more interesting bits.
Even if traffic directly from Twitter wasn't necessarily a big portion of incoming traffic, I feel like Twitter was a place that many people were using to hear about links, which would then get reshared around. People are exposed to a lot less variety now, with many folks dispersed elsewhere and the noise being so high on twitter/x. Our masses of friends are no longer there to help surface the more interesting bits.