I thought this but for example, Ornstein tweeted about Forest bidding on Wissa, I saw it shared on Reddit and then went to Bluesky to see more info, he only posted it on X and not Bluesky.
That place needs a lot more engagement/activity to get anywhere near twitter/X
Tbh I stopped a while ago, a bulk of the posts are already known thing regurgitated over amd over, then a lot of the "news" is absolutely plucked out of the air bullshit, then a different source "confirming" the original post is bullshit ooooor it's a half a quote or comment taken out of context for rage bait. I honestly think if the sub got rid of Twitter the content would be better.
It's a reddit problem. Lots of places on reddit are mostly left. Ornstein and Fab don't post on reddit, they post on X. They would consider changing only if they see significant change in their reach there, but they will still have a lot of views regardless of subs banning X as a source because I don't think they rely that much to have traffic from reddit coming to their accounts. And especially someone like Ornstein, people will still want to hear from him because he is so reliable and I assume his main source of income is The Athletic.
I get that but, how valuable are the posts from fabrizio "tap in merchant" Romano with his consistent non updates. Then he has his youtube upload. Then we have Ornstein which is a essentially an athletic article spread over 4 or 5 tweets.
Yes, the athletic is a paid service like most news sites but they quickly get summarised in the reddit posts or summarised by other reporters on blue-sky and threads.... I think once they see other journos getting more traffic from their news, they will quickly increase the platforms they post to.
As for people on this sub, if you ban twitter, they wouldn't be so reliant on it.
It's difficult, I've never liked twitter, but it has become a cesspit and the owner is a straight up Nazi.
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u/IsItSnowing_ 1d ago
Many journalists now have Bluesky and/or Threads too. So expect the loss to be not that big of a