I agree. Numbers matter when one's looking for collaboration or feedback on narrowly focused subjects. Fred --- On 11/10/2022 6:25 AM, William Dutton via Air-L wrote:
Great to see academics exploring Mastodon, but just to remind you of the blindingly obvious: it has about a million users, which is a surprisingly large number given the challenges in using it, but Twitter has about 330 million. Obama alone has 130 million followers on Twitter. And Twitter knows it has to grow its base of users.
Just one pragmatic point in favour of being active on a number of social media sites albeit this choice seems quite personal for many. It's a (relatively) free internet.
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