Collecting anecdotes, data, and anecdata on people and orgs who’ve left Twitter and found higher engagement from ostensibly fewer followers. This is in preparation for a renewed pitch to the org I’m in, to begin the process of x-trication. Boosts appreciated!
@misc : it is in French, but in those two pieces, I explain, with examples, how the followers count is mostly a lie and how people got a lot more engagement on Mastodon (taking the example of a Signal message)
https://ploum.net/2023-10-29-le-droit-de-supprimer-twitter.html
https://ploum.net/2023-07-23-pour-une-poignee-de-followers.html
@misc @dmarti I had 7000 “followers” on the bird site; by the time I had 700 followers on mastodon I had more and better reach/engagement. I saw a lot of people share a similar factor of 10 amplification over Twitter. Makes sense; it was obvious that the majority of my and everyone else’s follower count on Twitter was bots
@misc Yup. Twitter was well killed by the Elongated Muskrat...