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Fun fact: I just did a search on a news database. Roughly 15% of stories that mention Twitter also mention Trump, and roughly half of those seem to be about Tru
by testplzignore 8y ago
Fun fact: I just did a search on a news database. Roughly 15% of stories that mention Twitter also mention Trump, and roughly half of those seem to be about Trump's tweets.
I don't know if Trump is really causing Twitter usage to increase, but it has certainly made people who don't use Twitter more aware of it.
If you compare the awareness/user ratio on the various social media platforms, I bet Twitter's is pretty high, which means they have potential for significant growth if they can improve the UX and the "how do I use Twitter? Why would anyone use it?" problem.
- throwawayqdhd 8y agoThere is an entire cottage industry of Twitter pundits now who just focus on talking about Trump. I remember following Scott Adams, whose work I enjoyed. Before he started talking about Trump, he had some 40k followers. Since Trump, his follower count has ballooned to 250k and he almost exclusively talks about Trump now