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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by jcranmer on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @01:28PM (#44512716)
The people I've seen who have talked about their engagement numbers--as measured by something like "how many visitors do we get to a story based on a Bluesky/Facebook/ex-Twitter/etc. link", so independent of the social media's self-reported metrics--have all reported that Twitter is generally among the poorest-performing social media sites. Especially if you're looking at it from a perspective of "how much engagement do we get on social media [likes, quotes, replies, etc.] per conversion to visiting the site," where it strongly looks like Twitter is massively inflating its reported engagement.

I don't know how true that was of Twitter pre-Musk takeover, especially as many of the most direct comparisons didn't exist back then, so I can't say if Musk's takeover specifically made it less effective or not.

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by pjc50 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:53PM (#44514144)
Twitter explicitly down ranks off-site links to prevent this kind of "conversion".
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by Lu2025 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:05PM (#44516523)
At least it allows links; Instagram doesn't without paying.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by SV_BubbleTime on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:18PM (#44513822)
> The people I've seen who have talked about their engagement numbers

Now do bluesky. X is doing fine. Turns out network effects are real.

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by tristan957 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @06:26PM (#44515335)
I've seen people report they get better engagement on Mastodon and Blue Sky than they ever did with Twitter, based on percentages.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by SV_BubbleTime on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @06:49PM (#44515508)
And I’ve seen people report the complete opposite. Both can be true. The reality is BlueSky pushed echo chambering even harder than X and it’s a dying platform - maybe those two things are unrelated but not for me they aren’t. Unless some miracle happens to reverse its trend, BlueSky already had its shot.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by tristan957 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @07:34PM (#44515801)
Luckily Blue Sky isn't the only competitor in the space, then.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by SV_BubbleTime on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:46PM (#44526548)
Yes, right.

There is mastadon - dead for mass market, threads - dead entirely.

How many times do people need to be told that network effects are really real?

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by tristan957 on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:59PM (#44564579)
Threads reports having hundreds of millions of monthly active users.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by api on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:50PM (#44526583)
I have no interest in any of them. The Twitter-style format is inherently toxic and always devolves into a trolling competition or echo chambers. The short format prioritizes stupid takes that fit in a sentence or two over well thought out ideas.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by slater on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:03PM (#44564612)
How is Bluesky a dying platform...? o.0
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by wasabi991011 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @09:27PM (#44516355)
Anecdotal, but everone that I've heard do those comparisons have done Bluesky vs X, and every time they've noticed better engagement ratio and higher quality engagement on Bluesky.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by SV_BubbleTime on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:20PM (#44534770)
Yeah. I’m sure.

Liberal echo chamber gets lots of liberal echos.

Works until you realize that you’re just talking to yourself.