ok so like... i get worried about leaving twitter or it falling apart because it's been my main source of ~Online Engagement~ for plugging my art and my cool things i do and my various crowdfund efforts. for years now that's been the case. but then i read some stuff about internal twitter reporting:
Twitter is struggling to keep its most active users - who are vital to the business - engaged... These "heavy tweeters" account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy tweeters have been in "absolute decline" since the pandemic began, a Twitter researcher wrote in an internal document titled 'Where did the Tweeters Go?'
A 'heavy tweeter' is defined as someone who logs in to Twitter six or seven days a week and tweets about three to four times a week, the document said.
really? that's the criteria for a heavy tweeter?? that's nothing compared to the importance of this shit i've got built up in my head. i hate being on twitter but i used to tell myself it was worth it for like, the exposure or whatever. what exposure?? barely anyone's using it lol. i used to enjoy it, met some great people there, but now i don't. seems like i'm not alone
it's always been a bit of a cesspool but it didn't used to be this bad. and now people are finally getting sick of it. but now i don't have to worry about it since it seems like twitter wasn't that huge of a deal anyway.
i'm realizing now that word of mouth has always gotten me further than any tweet i ever made. luckily that works on all platforms
