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Posted on 04/06/2026 7:56:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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But every now and then, a FiveThirtyEight article would “go viral” on News Feed. When this happened, it seemed literally almost completely random. It wasn’t even particularly well-correlated with the headline. And it was inversely correlated with the depth and quality of the article. But here’s the thing: that “viral” traffic was almost worthless. A lot of it quite literally consisted of people who visited the site for 5 to 30 seconds, read a paragraph or two, and never returned.
Twitter, then also near the peak of its influence, was a comparatively better platform for us, often producing more overall engagement for FiveThirtyEight, even though Twitter was always much smaller. Back in the mid-2010s, Twitter rewarded newsworthiness, subject-matter expertise, and a certain kind of nerdy and snarky but relatively cerebral argumentativeness, all things we were pretty good at. Furthermore, the pre-Elon versions of Twitter were always surprisingly happy to let you direct traffic off of their platform.
By the late 2010s, Twitter would “evolve” in a direction that was more partisan, less pluralistic, and dominated by quote-tweets and dunks. For lack of a better term, it also became much more woke. The enforcement of groupthink was rigid, not unlike what Bluesky has become today. There was always a “main character,” someone who was the subject of the pile-on or the struggle session of the day. Your goal was supposedly never to become the main character. I spectacularly failed at this. Without exaggeration, I was probably a “trending topic” on Twitter (also something you never wanted to be) more often than all but a half-dozen or so other writers and journalists.
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Where is FR?
The sun has set on Nate Silver and his ilk.
Social media contains a vigorous medium for applying withering, poisonous contagions masquerading as whimsical adventurers or compelling intellectual reasonings, while clawing away legitimate, natural human behaviors, and therefore leading people to morally bankrupt destinations.
Nate is a freak?
I haven’t heard of half of the “big names”. I do remember that when Elon Musk bought Twitter, one of the first accounts reinstated was “Catturd”, which is an amazing name for an account with 47 million followers and easily in the Top Ten. The fact that the pre-Elon Twitter threw away nearly 50 million devotees is telling.
Piers Morgan should not be colored red. He is an unreconstructed liberal. I am amazed that Babylon Bee hasn’t gotten more traction.
Nate Silver belongs with Brian Stelter on the ash heap of history.
Nate’s 2016 Hillary will win prediction was, at one point, 85% DONE DEAL! Hillary had no Worries, Donald Trump was a joke.
The fact that anyone listens to any of his crap is crazy.
LOL!! Cat Turd has 47 million followers. Obama and Candace Owens both have 11 million.
I object to Owens being put in the right leaning category. They need a bs crazy category for her among others.
I agree. She fell down the rabbit hole, as it appears Alex Jones has too. I never listened to either of them.
Found this Laura Loomer X post over on patriots.win:
Alex Jones and Robert Barnes just called for the 25th Amendment to be used against President Trump
I have no idea who Robert Barnes is.
Crowder has a bit on this. The reason for this IS because of X now offers free speech and everyone is welcome. Leftists dont like free speech, they want a controlled echo chamber so they left.
Yes, Owens is not right. Shes a loon
Why, on earth, would Alex say to do that?
He also said we had “Peak Trump” like six times over months of the initial election season.
He was sure Trump could never break into a zone he could win.
I have no clue. I've never watched his show and don't belong to any of the social media sites. God only knows what's going on in his head.
If you have “never listened to either of them”, how do you know what they said?
Duh!! I watched the clip that was with the Laura Looper post on X?
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