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I picked a random news org. and scrolled through their feed. It was The New York Times with 53 million followers. Scroll through their last 100 tweets or so and
by pixxel 4y ago
I picked a random news org. and scrolled through their feed. It was The New York Times with 53 million followers. Scroll through their last 100 tweets or so and look at the engagement. 5-50 comments, 20-200 retweets. I used to get that level of engagement back in the day when I used Twitter with a couple thousand followers. Something’s off.
Note. I’m not American and have no political affiliation to have selected NYT.
EDIT: this was before the shooting that's just happened.
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- throwaway0x7E6 4y agoapparently that's "normal" for New York Times in particular check out the views to comments ratio on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4II9cYrQvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4II9cYrQvE