There are salutary times to learn introductory information about a potential purchase ( ideally before any money exchange bridge player ) , and then there ’s three hebdomad after the sales event has gone through , on the platform which you have just bought .
Yesterday , Elon Musklogged on to the site he spent$44 billionon to discover that he does n’t know the level of traffic ( get across through to a data link , e.g. an clause or blog post ) that the website provides . Bloomberg writerAshlee Vance wrote"it is really unearthly how Twitter drives so few clicks , " before Musk jumped in to " right " her with his own faulty information .
" chirrup drives a monolithic number of suction stop to other site / apps , " Musk replied in a now - deleted tweet . " big cluck equipment driver on the Internet by far . "
The problem is that this is far from the true statement , with the political program actually providing referral dealings on par with Pinterest , according to the useable data from vane analytics serviceStatcounter . drug user quickly even up him .
Embarrassing as that error might be , it became worse when Twitter sum a jury to his tweet , explain that " reader sum context they thought people might want to know " , essentially introduced as a community fact - match feature film before Musk engage over .
The Charles William Post linked to a reputation on social media referral on the siteData Reportal , which explained that the big driver of social traffic ( as anyone who has worked in societal media for a few week will get it on ) remain Facebook .
" Figures from Statcounter break that – outside of China – Facebook drives around three - quarters ( 74 percentage ) of global societal media website referrals , " the site explains . " Interestingly , Statcounter reports that Twitter and Pinterest come next in the rankings , with both platforms responsible for roughly 7.7 percentage of total social medium referrals . "
Though Twitter came second according to the report , Facebook is clearly the biggest click driver on the net by far , with nearly ten times the traffic that Twitter provides .
Eventually , Musk cancel the tweet without explanation , beforelearning his lesson and checking he ’d got his facts right next timeannoying engineers with a tweet about deadening load times , dubbed nonsensical by former Twitter workers and outsiders with expertness in the area .
" This is such a Rorschach test of a tweet,“senior cybersecurity fellowat the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin Matt Taitwrote on Twitter .
" Non technical folk take care at it and see ' oh wow , proficient word and numbers , that must intend he ’s so technical ' . Technical common people look at it and say " ' ok , that ’s BS , if it were 1,000 RPCs on burden , the home screen would take minutes to load " and possibly immediately go checker to see that , yes , the phone number is much smaller . "
Another exploiter added , less charitably , " I ’d like to apologize for twitter being exceedingly boring in many countries . The brofabulator got unplug from the hypermalacronker and is doing > 1,000 grackenschnickels just to render a honkuplex . "
