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Ask HN: Why is engagement on Twitter so unbelievably low?
Example: Ycombinator has 1 million followers. But their tweets get about 20 likes. How can that be?
How do users consume those tweets so that not even one in ten thousand is tempted to click the like button?
- smt88 8y agoA huge percentage of Twitter users are either bots or inactive. I don't personally know any active Twitter users, but most people I know did sign up at one point or another.
- TekMol 8y agoWhat is that 'huge percentage'? Even if it is 90% ... wouldn't it still be strange that not even one in a 1000 followers likes a post? Putting it another way: If I don't even like one in a thousand posts of an account - why would I follow it?
- smt88 8y agoI never like Facebook or Instagram posts, and I see hundreds a month. I don’t think it’s uncommon to have read-only users. HN supposedly has a high percentage that never comment.
- navjack27 8y agoWhat is this.... Every single one of my followers are active real people lol.
- smt88 8y agoI didn’t mean to suggest that normal people buy followers or that real bubbles of Twitter users exist. My point was that it’s easy to think Twitter use is much more common than it is when you’re in certain cities/cultures.
- navjack27 8y agoIt has to do with the person running the social media account. You need more wishing for death memes and less just vomiting out links.