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> Over at Twitter, the story is the same. Of the company’s nine most senior executives, only four tweet more than once a day on average. Say what? Tweeting onc
by pgsandstrom 9y ago
> Over at Twitter, the story is the same. Of the company’s nine most senior executives, only four tweet more than once a day on average.
Say what? Tweeting once per day seems like a lot of tweeting to me. But I guess things are relative...
- dkersten 9y agoYeah, agreed, although I consider once a week to be high...
- chippy 9y agoI think the authors point was that the companies are advocating for people to be using their services for as long as possible, and yet the bosses of the companies are using it minimally or not using it at all. Once per day may indeed be a healthy usage but it's not the level of engagement desired by the companies.
- i_cant_speel 9y agoIs it safe to assume that's because they don't like using the service or because they are too busy to be spending all day on social media sharing posts and tweets?
- nsgi 9y agoThat's a good point. It would be useful to see a comparison to executives of non-social media companies.
- chippy 9y agoThe article points out that ex-executives of these companies say that the services were designed to capture people's attention and act like a drug, and that they now disagree with it. The implication of this (and to answer the title, I guess) is that current executives know this and "don't get high on their own supply". Whether that's the actual case or not is the question, and we could compare other executives of technological but non social media companies to see the level of how much of their own dog food they eat. There's a further question which is whether eating ones own dog food is a good measure.
- steveklabnik 9y agoIt really depends. I'm an extremely active Twitter user; my account is roughly nine years old, and I have 150,000 tweets in that time, it is just over 46 tweets/day. That's also just on my personal account, I run another account as well, though it's lower traffic, and mostly retweets.
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- lolsal 9y agoMy first impression was these folks that are in highly-visible positions at a highly-visible company probably are very conservative/careful with what they publicly share/post since they are under relatively higher scrutiny. I wouldn't be surprised if they all had private accounts which had more activity.
- MarkMc 9y agoThe standard metric for social media is average monthly users. Sounds to me like The Guardian is shoehorning the facts to fit their narrative.