Its hardly surprising that an image would get more engagement than would an article. While an image has less meat to it, by the same token it requires less effo

Its hardly surprising that an image would get more engagement than would an article. While an image has less meat to it, by the same token it requires less effort to engage with it. You look at the image, think for a second, then possibly retweet or like. With an article, you can hardly engage with it without following a link, reading some number of paragraphs, reflecting on them, etc. I would consider it quite natural that images and articles get roughly corresponding amounts of engagement. That this was the absolute level of analysis was quite disapointing. Besides trying to evaluate in more depth the viral capability of links today, I would have expected a comparison with days past. I can hardly, having read this article, confidently say that elon is trying to kill external links.