Post by @Lee_in_Iowa@newsie.social

2022-12-17 15:35 UTC

@mjfuhlhage@mastodon.social @raindropworks@newsie.social One odd thing I notice, having had 92K followers on the Bird app and only just now breaking 2K here, is that I’m seeing as much engagement here (tho fewer likes 😕) as I did over there. I wonder whether and how much the algorithm was affecting our real “reach” on Twitter.

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@raindropworks@newsie.social 2022-12-17 15:42

@Lee_in_Iowa@newsie.social @mjfuhlhage@mastodon.social Oh, I fully expect that a -lot- of my followers on there were either old accounts or bot-type accounts. But since I don't really have the knowledge to figure out how many of my subs were 'seeing' my posts, I'm just working with the numbers as honest at this point. Part of the difficulty I think is as Twitter grew, people's understanding of it and how it worked grew. Mastodon is an old service, but we're still now asking whole communities to learn it literally overnight

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@mjfuhlhage@mastodon.social 2022-12-17 15:49

@Lee_in_Iowa@newsie.social @raindropworks@newsie.social In some ways, it's like a cocktail party. A dozen or so people and you reach everyone. Compare that to an arena concert. You talk with maybe six people and there's so much noise you can't hear beyond that, other than the band and its amplifiers.

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