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> These news sites should really just stop using Twitter. It's already happening: https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/ https://niemanreports.o
by duskwuff 3y ago
> These news sites should really just stop using Twitter.
It's already happening:
https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/ https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/
TL;DR: NPR and many of its member stations stopped posting to Twitter in April 2023. Traffic to their web site dropped by ~1%.
- mgiannopoulos 3y agoImportant note: Traffic from Twitter was already 2% and is now at 1% Not exactly the same dramatic story if you think about it.
- eclipticplane 3y agoTo further distance themselves, they need to stop quoting things that happened on Twitter as if its news. "Such-and-such Senator said on X, Formerly Twitter ..." can be replaced with the actual quote, press release, or news conference.