Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
View counts only reliably work when everything’s in a centralized database.
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
i agree, and I also see view counts as another impermanent tactic in Elon’s battle to tear down Twitter in order to rebuild it. like people, companies often need a near-death experience before they can really change. perhaps he’s laying bare all of its weaknesses (like 1% engagement levels) to accelerate the proc
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phil
@phil
1% engagement is pretty standard across the internet. Services that exceed this at scale are the exception, not the rule. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
wow, lots of fun data behind what you read on the internet. I noticed most of that was about content creation (who is writing) vs. engagement, kind of like original tweets / replies vs. likes. This graph shows Twitter has the worst engagement stats across platforms 🙈 thoughts? https://i.imgur.com/2x9ULYt.jpg
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