Comment by cgh
1 year ago
Nearly every subject matter expert I followed has left. Scientists, mathematicians, journalists, authors, comic book people, and so on.
What I now see are people with demented political opinions about women and American politics. It sucks.
> Scientists, mathematicians, journalists, authors, comic book people, and so on.
Intersting, I haven't had a single person leave. People make a big fuss about leaving, but the traffic you get from Twitter is too attractive to leave.
> What I now see are people with demented political opinions about women and American politics. It sucks.
As I said, that's because you're not using lists. It's literally impossible to see posts from accounts you don't like if you're using lists.
As a journalist who has been involved in newsroom analytics at three organizations since Twitter launched, I can assure you that most online news outlets have seen very little to no referral traffic from Twitter in nearly a decade. Journalists love to point to some viral retweet of their story, but most of the time: the number of likes/retweets > actual referrer traffic.
See NPR: https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/
i follow about a thousand physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists, try searching keywords like “quantum mechanics” and then “follow all” when recommended. Really no place like twitter for math/science content