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I think a ton of users will hit 600 "posts read" really quickly, if that's what they're measuring. Refresh your timeline, load 20 new tweets. Tap a tweet, load
by TillE 3y ago
I think a ton of users will hit 600 "posts read" really quickly, if that's what they're measuring.
Refresh your timeline, load 20 new tweets. Tap a tweet, load 10 replies, etc.
- minimaxir 3y agoEven if Twitter loads 20 tweets, it doesn't mean you've read 20 tweets. This is not semantics, as tweet impressions are a separate metric Twitter tracks and would more intuitively represent reads. Unless Twitter engineering did some malicious compliance for Elon.
- filleduchaos 3y agoPersonally I wouldn't assume that the app that's been demonstrated to count "views" in extremely sketchy ways has suddenly started caring about the distinction between loading and reading a post. Especially when the intent is pretty obviously to herd users towards subscribing.
- minimaxir 3y agoFair counterpoint: Tweet views are a vanity metric (which is why Elon likes them), but tweet impressions are a required metric for advertisers to track ad CTR and any shenanigans there will actually kill Twitter.
- rideontime 3y agoIf the point is to stop scrapers, they would _have_ to use “tweets fetched” as the metric.
- ncallaway 3y agoThe bullshit reason given for this was to “prevent bots and scrapers”, so I strongly suspect they’d be using API responses, rather than impressions. Especially so considering how quickly some people are reporting the rate limiting impacts them