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Half of those subs will be bots and another 25% will have forgot they even subbed to that person. Very different from paying real money every month.
by thatguy0900 4y ago
Half of those subs will be bots and another 25% will have forgot they even subbed to that person. Very different from paying real money every month.
- leejoramo 4y agoAnd the NYT subscriptions go to Households, Offices, Waiting Rooms where the number of readers is greater than the number of subscribers
- bombcar 4y agoThis is the real situation - you can see it most obviously in the view count of Youtube personalities that may still have millions of subscribers but only 10k+ views on their latest videos. Even if half the NYT papers go directly into the recycling without being opened, that's still going to be a larger reach than similar-counted twitters.
- tablespoon 4y ago> Half of those subs will be bots and another 25% will have forgot they even subbed to that person. Very different from paying real money every month. Also you can expect newspaper subscribers are paying a lot of attention to the paper's article, while a follower may be barely paying attention to any account they follow. Additionally, newspaper articles probably drive a lot of tweets in ways that are difficult to measure fully.