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The people I've seen who have talked about their engagement numbers--as measured by something like "how many visitors do we get to a story based on a Bluesky/Fa
by jcranmer 1y ago
The people I've seen who have talked about their engagement numbers--as measured by something like "how many visitors do we get to a story based on a Bluesky/Facebook/ex-Twitter/etc. link", so independent of the social media's self-reported metrics--have all reported that Twitter is generally among the poorest-performing social media sites. Especially if you're looking at it from a perspective of "how much engagement do we get on social media [likes, quotes, replies, etc.] per conversion to visiting the site," where it strongly looks like Twitter is massively inflating its reported engagement.
I don't know how true that was of Twitter pre-Musk takeover, especially as many of the most direct comparisons didn't exist back then, so I can't say if Musk's takeover specifically made it less effective or not.
- pjc50 1y agoTwitter explicitly down ranks off-site links to prevent this kind of "conversion".
- Lu2025 1y agoAt least it allows links; Instagram doesn't without paying.
- SV_BubbleTime 1y ago> The people I've seen who have talked about their engagement numbers Now do bluesky. X is doing fine. Turns out network effects are real.
- tristan957 1y agoI've seen people report they get better engagement on Mastodon and Blue Sky than they ever did with Twitter, based on percentages.
- SV_BubbleTime 1y agoAnd I’ve seen people report the complete opposite. Both can be true. The reality is BlueSky pushed echo chambering even harder than X and it’s a dying platform - maybe those two things are unrelated but not for me they aren’t. Unless some miracle happens to reverse its trend, BlueSky already had its shot.
- tristan957 1y agoLuckily Blue Sky isn't the only competitor in the space, then.
- SV_BubbleTime 1y agoYes, right. There is mastadon - dead for mass market, threads - dead entirely. How many times do people need to be told that network effects are really real?
- tristan957 1y agoThreads reports having hundreds of millions of monthly active users.
- api 1y agoI have no interest in any of them. The Twitter-style format is inherently toxic and always devolves into a trolling competition or echo chambers. The short format prioritizes stupid takes that fit in a sentence or two over well thought out ideas.
- slater 1y agoHow is Bluesky a dying platform...? o.0
- wasabi991011 1y agoAnecdotal, but everone that I've heard do those comparisons have done Bluesky vs X, and every time they've noticed better engagement ratio and higher quality engagement on Bluesky.
- SV_BubbleTime 1y agoYeah. I’m sure. Liberal echo chamber gets lots of liberal echos. Works until you realize that you’re just talking to yourself.