alt Hacker NewsI'm curious what kind of engagement people who aren't prolific posters are seeing on Twitter these days. Before I left I noticed that engagement went off a cliff to near zero immediately following the aggressive algorithm changes with blue check spam being promoted, but remained normal on my other social channels. It didn't seem like there were any normal people talking with each other on Twitter.
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jjkaczor • 10/01/2024
Zero. I post the same things to Mastodon, Threads, BlueSky, and other places and get plenty of engagement.
However - because I don't pay for a "blue checkmark", that's my best guess as to why I get zero engagement.
That's fine - I have always treated Twitter as a "post-only", "fire & forget" medium.
It's down there, below the bluecheck promotion. Or in (non-English) circles where the LLM bots haven't proliferated yet, which are also (mostly) why I stuck around.