I do wonder how many people are staying on Twitter due to follower count alone. Having had an account for over a decade, I'd have previously estimated about 20% of my followers were dead accounts. Based on now leaving and making new accounts on other platforms, my estimate is closer to 90%.
As a blogger I've always known only like 1% of people who retweet/like a post actually clicked the link and read the article, but I assumed that was just a social media thing. Having experimented with basically every other platform, I learned it's more likely that a significant number of Twitter engagements are fake, and those that aren't don't really care enough to read your work, they'll just give you a retweet/like for appearances.
@99019452 A few years ago I had nearly 10k followers. Assuming 2k dead accounts and 5k accounts that rarely posted, that still left 3k with whom I had some potential contact, 100's of quasi- regulars.
All those numbers are way down now. I haven't found anything to replace it, although I do use mstdn, facebook, even linked in.
Trying to recruit followers to my substack, but it's a challenge. Oh well.
@99019452 Twitter(x)’s new privacy policy starts 9/29. If all goes as plans, I’ll be off Twitter before then. Followers were part of what kept me there, but also I have many author friends there. Sadly, many of hose friends haven’t made the leap to Medium. The writing community on here is still growing, but I wish it would grow more quickly.
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