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> If Twitter would then also allow people to unstick a tweet after reading it I really like your idea of a stickied tweet but they should probably automaticall
by frostmatthew 12y ago
> If Twitter would then also allow people to unstick a tweet after reading it
I really like your idea of a stickied tweet but they should probably automatically unstick it once you've seen it.
- sp332 12y agoThere isn't really a way for Twitter to know if you've seen it if you don't interact with it in some way.
- frostmatthew 12y agoOf course there is (that's how they're calculating the impressions figure in your analytics).
- sp332 12y agoHow the heck does twitter know if I looked at a particular tweet?
- frostmatthew 12y agoThey know when it's displayed to you. Let's say that Bob follows Sally (and a bunch of other people) * Sally makes a tweet at 8AM * Bob doesn't check Twitter until noon * Bob doesn't scroll down, the tweet at the bottom of the screen is timestamped 11:30AM In this scenario Twitter never displays Sally's tweet in Bob's timeline. It is thus not an impression. If Bob had scrolled down to see tweets going back to 8AM Twitter would display Sally's tweet in Bob's timeline, this would count as an impression. If you're asking if they know that you actually read, parsed, comprehended, or contemplated the text of the tweet then no of course not. Likewise somebody clicking on a link doesn't mean they actually read, parsed, comprehended, or contemplated that content.
- sp332 12y agoOf course, and that's how ad impressions are counted. But that doesn't help me as a user, and advertisers pay much less for "impressions" than for an ad that is interacted with in some way. So that's worse for everyone than an ad that you click to dismiss.
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