Jay RosenNov 12, 2022

I did a little comparison: reach and reaction on Twitter and Mastodon.

I picked a subject typical of my feed and reworded it to be more native to Mastodon. Same link, issue, people, tone.

With 309 K followers on Twitter it got 81 shares and 179 likes

With 8.5 K followers on Mastodon: 123 shares and 195 likes.

Here are the two posts:

https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1591147769229557761 [305K followers, 81 shares, 179 likes]

https://mastodon.social/@jayrosen_nyu/109326807884220104 [8.5K followers, 123 RT, 195 likes]

Jay Rosen on Twitter

“"He asked: Do you really think we haven’t done enough coverage of the threats to democracy? "I responded emphatically that yes, I certainly did think that." @froomkin's dialogue with @blakehounshell of the New York Times is not to be missed. https://t.co/D1qnw0MkZv”

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Show threadCristín Leach (🔈 kris-teen)
@jayrosen_nyu I did a little experiment over there with my following list and it transformed my “latest” feed https://twitter.com/cristinleach/status/1591389098966761472?s=21&t=xCSR1MzgQXtUfs50iFoG3g
Cristín Leach @[email protected] on Twitter

“Lot of talk on mastodon about how the feeds work deliberately differently to twitter. There’s no algorithm to game, OR get used by. Came back here and went through who I was following individually removing c.800 accounts and guess what? My “latest” feed has changed utterly. 1/3”

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Nov 12, 2022 at 3:41pmWeb
Show threadJay RosenNov 12, 2022
@cristinleach Thanks, Cristin.