[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

Kaya Galder The assumption that despite there being a wider audience the interests of those audience members is exactly the same, if that was true why have multiple channels. What I am saying is that in different communities that doesnt and will never hold true. Using statistics to compare the

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

@Gnangarra: I would doubt on the idea that Pelé is not relevant to the English audience, as it was the most visited article by far that day (https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org=all-access=2022-12-29=), and the second most visited next day, just after the less known

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

Hi/Bon dia Yaroslav: Also, you say one tweet per day is too little, how may do you think is normal? If I personally see an account which tweets more than say 10 per day (not counting threads) I start thinking may be it is a spam generator. Since 4 years ago we updated the social media

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

Hi Galder, on the other hand.. Basque Wikipedia is one of very few accounts twitting on the Pele death in Basque, whereas a lot was twitted in English. I do not think English Wikipedia twitter can compete with major news outlets, they operate on a completely different scale.The low-hanging fruit

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

Kaya Galder The difference would be influenced by the audience, while Pele is a global sports person the interest in him will be different in many communities. I would "suspect" coming from a personal perspective that while its news Pele isnt as revered in many english speaking countries in such

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

Some months have gone since I started this topic in this list, and still, we can't know how much engagement we have at Wikipedia, because data is not available. Twitter is now owned by Elon Musk, things are changing, there are more accounts in Mastodon daily, but still Twitter matters. I have

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