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Jay Rosen Nov 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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Leah McElrath Nov 12, 2022

@jayrosen_nyu What about impressions on Twitter? Many read without engaging.

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Jay Rosen Nov 12, 2022

@leahmcelrath The one thing I have noticed is not as many posters at Mastadon leap to tell you that you are wrong or misrepresenting something.

Although I did have one "actually" reply to this.

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Joshua Marshall Nov 12, 2022

@jayrosen_nyu @leahmcelrath That is one of the core features and most enervating parts of Twitter. People driving by and placing yr words into some comment or construct yr not even aware of and isn't really related to anything yr saying. That can be a positive in the sense that yr errors can be pointed out. But it more becomes part of the atmosphere of chaos and low level abuse.

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Alex Galt 🧄

@joshtpm @jayrosen_nyu @leahmcelrath

One of the top climate scientists in the world once took a comment I made on his tweet out of context, mischaracterized it, and quote tweeted it to his 200k followers (I’m a total nobody outside my community), equating me with the worst climate deniers. I wanted to crawl under a rock. I’m really happy that particular dynamic can’t happen here.