Richard MacManus on Nostr: I'm seeing *really low* engagement on my articles on Twitter/X now, even when they ...
I'm seeing *really low* engagement on my articles on Twitter/X now, even when they are RTed by a popular X user. In this case, here's an article I thought would appeal to a lot of AI tech twitter people...and it did, kinda. 4,778 impressions...but just 79 clicks to my article! That's a 1.6% CTR (click-thru rate). If you look at this screenshot, you can see that the link looks like a photo only (because they took away URLs). Just so bad right now on X...
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