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I agree that Twitter is far from dead but you’re choosing a bad example. > The main Twitter video view metric is triggered when a user watches a video for at l

I agree that Twitter is far from dead but you’re choosing a bad example. > The main Twitter video view metric is triggered when a user watches a video for at least 2 seconds and sees at least 50% of the video player in-view. So anyone that had the (auto playing) video in view for two seconds as they scrolled through their feed. Multiplied by the number of times it’s in their feed. It’s a pretty meaningless number.

willcipriano 3y ago
How about: > 845.9K Likes > 237.6K Retweets In a day and a half for a ten minute video of a guy in his basement talking. It isn't even a video platform.
- sumeno 3y ago
  Given how easy it is to have bot farms promote tweets I don't think this is a valid metric to use
- afavour 3y ago
  But what is the argument here? 237k retweets is a lot, sure. This tweet from 2020 has 883k retweets and is just four photos: https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1296701109340237824 https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1296701109340237824 So does 237k retweets in 2023 mean the network is as vital as it was in 2020? I have no idea what basis this argument is being made on.
  - belltaco 3y ago
    Does it mean Twitter is dead though? That's the basis of this thread.
    - afavour 3y ago
      That’s exactly my point. A tweet with 237k retweets was thrown out as a evidence that it’s not dead but I’m asking on what basis 237k is a lot or not a lot.
nostromo 3y ago
If you think that’s bad, wait until you hear how they measure broadcast and cable television viewership.
- afavour 3y ago
  What does that have to do with Twitter’s popularity, though?
- rafark 3y ago
  How