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Your experience with twitter is similar to my experience advertising on reddit a couple of years ago. Their ads were dirt cheap compared to on other platforms b

Your experience with twitter is similar to my experience advertising on reddit a couple of years ago. Their ads were dirt cheap compared to on other platforms but nothing converted. Most traffic from Reddit were roundtrip clicks with average sessions of about a second. I would say that, from a user perspective, I do accidentally click on a lot of stuff on Reddit and Twitter. Almost every third post is an ad.

arbuge 3y ago
Reddit has always been like that, but X formerly converted quite well for us.
walrus01 3y ago
> I would say that, from a user perspective, I do accidentally click on a lot of stuff on Reddit and Twitter. Almost every third post is an ad. As a user, and not a person with advertising dollars to spend, try using reddit in firefox with ublock origin installed as a plugin. The experience is significantly better. Also works well with firefox on android and ublock origin.
- pdxandi 3y ago
  I use Brave for that reason and it’s a totally different browsing experience.
wlesieutre 3y ago
About 99% of the ads I’ve clicked on Reddit were by accident when I hit the back button and then try to click a link below an ad just as the page reflows to fit a taller ad and puts it under my cursor
- thih9 3y ago
  An accident that happens repeatedly, its cause can be traced to a single actor, and that actor also benefits from all of instances of the accident. Ad tech is weird.
  - PaulHoule 3y ago
    I think "all clicks are click fraud" comes pretty close to the truth. I have a love-hate relationship with this site https://www.anandtech.com/ https://www.anandtech.com/ which runs some great articles but also runs a stupid roundup on large HDDs every month where they don't do any research but scrape prices from AMZN. The thing is when I am visiting that site on mobile the content is always jiggling around, I think it is no accident because it means you want to click on a link but ka-ching you clicked on an ad.

arbuge 3y ago

Reddit has always been like that, but X formerly converted quite well for us.

walrus01 3y ago

> I would say that, from a user perspective, I do accidentally click on a lot of stuff on Reddit and Twitter. Almost every third post is an ad. As a user, and not a person with advertising dollars to spend, try using reddit in firefox with ublock origin installed as a plugin. The experience is significantly better. Also works well with firefox on android and ublock origin.

pdxandi 3y ago
I use Brave for that reason and it’s a totally different browsing experience.

wlesieutre 3y ago

About 99% of the ads I’ve clicked on Reddit were by accident when I hit the back button and then try to click a link below an ad just as the page reflows to fit a taller ad and puts it under my cursor

thih9 3y ago
An accident that happens repeatedly, its cause can be traced to a single actor, and that actor also benefits from all of instances of the accident. Ad tech is weird.
- PaulHoule 3y ago
  I think "all clicks are click fraud" comes pretty close to the truth. I have a love-hate relationship with this site https://www.anandtech.com/ https://www.anandtech.com/ which runs some great articles but also runs a stupid roundup on large HDDs every month where they don't do any research but scrape prices from AMZN. The thing is when I am visiting that site on mobile the content is always jiggling around, I think it is no accident because it means you want to click on a link but ka-ching you clicked on an ad.