His giant Twitter audience created 554 likes and 185 retweets as of 7 p.m. EDT on Thursday. In contrast, his smaller sized audience on Truth Social tripled the engagement with 1,550 likes and 488 “re-truths.”
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Not a surprise at all!
I’ve never been on twitter but I would atribute that to two things;
First, you were hearing many many years ago how twitter (and other social media) would shadow-ban people. In effect, they would stifle the exposure of tweets and propagation of people they didn’t like. They can’t just censor people into the dark without making it obvious (except for extreme but false excused cases like Trump where they just fully ban).
Secondly, and more obvious, Twitter is controlled by trolls. Not only do they ban together, but they are supported by bot nets, and I suspect that twitter does the opposite of shadow-ban them. The lefty trolls and troll groups likely get priority. The only time conservatives or republicans get a lot of retweets is when they are being flamed
It is only a matter of time until they do the same on Truth Social.
I agree with all of that, but what about all the millions and millions of Twitter users who signed up but don’t actually pay attention to it?
For instance, I at one time, about a decade ago, I jumped onboard the Facebook and Twitter trains because everybody I knew were racing about it. I would casually “follow” people on Twitter and read their tweets when notified, but I NEVER replied, commented, shared, “re-truthed” or anything else. I finally got bored with both platforms, stopped visiting them, and turned off all notifications before finally cancelling both accounts.
So, again my question is how many millions of Twitter and Facebook members are actually engaged as opposed to members that are not but just too lazy to cancel their accounts? I suspect it is massive and that many millions will flock to Trump’s site once it is fully operational
I hope the format is better than Twitter’s format. I detest theirs.