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I feel the same way. It's the exact same issue sports arena has ... if 40,000 people show up for a game, that still can't be reasonably counted as an "audience"

• Tade0 9y ago
  If they are the only 40k people interested in seeing this game and absolutely no one is watching the live transmission then it's hardly a major sporting event. A spike of retweets from 0,05% of the users is hardly a spike. If so, you would have to call every link to a funny cat gif on twitter a "Twitter Storm".
  • cocktailpeanuts 9y ago
    Good job on the investigation and the math but that's not how it works. Unlike closed social networks like Facebook, everything on Twitter is public. Which means their active user count may be 300m, but they reach far wider audience than that through citations through all kinds of other media, either through indirect mentions or through direct embeds. Of course, the fact that they're not monetizing their influence effectively is another story, but just counting their user number to say they have smaller influence is just being naive.