Martin HollandFor weeks at least as many people have been coming to heise.de via our account @heiseonline on #Mastodon as via our account on #Twitter.
I have said this multiple times already, but this was in part based on an assumption, now I have another clear sign supporting this. That's because our account in Twitter was largely silent since Tuesday (no, it was probably our fault and not that of #ElonMusk). But that means, that no one came to our current articles via our own posts own #Twitter and instead only via others who shared them. The numbers dropped significantly and no matter how I look, what's left is about 30% of our normal numbers. Coincidentally, we already had such an outage on an earlier Wednesday with an identical result.
So if I want to compare how many visitors come only (!) via our accounts on #Mastodon and #Twitter, I have to subtract 30% from the sum of all visits via Twitter.
The following picture emerges (mind you, these are the visits only via @heiseonline and the Twitter account to messages in our newsticker; our brands @heisec etc. are not included): Visits via both our accounts run almost parallel and have been for months. This confirms once more what I have been writing in the past.
Absolute numbers remain quite low, though. But that's another story.
This Thread in German:
https://social.heise.de/@mho/110429490556083418
I have said this multiple times already, but this was in part based on an assumption, now I have another clear sign supporting this. That's because our account in Twitter was largely silent since Tuesday (no, it was probably our fault and not that of #ElonMusk). But that means, that no one came to our current articles via our own posts own #Twitter and instead only via others who shared them. The numbers dropped significantly and no matter how I look, what's left is about 30% of our normal numbers. Coincidentally, we already had such an outage on an earlier Wednesday with an identical result.
So if I want to compare how many visitors come only (!) via our accounts on #Mastodon and #Twitter, I have to subtract 30% from the sum of all visits via Twitter.
The following picture emerges (mind you, these are the visits only via @heiseonline and the Twitter account to messages in our newsticker; our brands @heisec etc. are not included): Visits via both our accounts run almost parallel and have been for months. This confirms once more what I have been writing in the past.
Absolute numbers remain quite low, though. But that's another story.
This Thread in German:
https://social.heise.de/@mho/110429490556083418
Martin Holland (@[email protected])
Über unseren Account @heiseonline auf #Mastodon kommen seit Wochen mindestens so viele Leute auf heise.de, wie über unseren Account auf #Twitter. Das hab ich ja schon ein paar mal erläutert, aber da war ein wichtiger Teil geschätzt. Jetzt habe ich eine neue Zahl, die diese Annahme klar untermauert. Und zwar war unser Account auf Twitter seit Dienstag und bis vorhin weitgehend verstummt (nein, es war wohl unsere Schuld und nicht die von #ElonMusk). #TwitterTakeover (Thread 🧵 1/3)