[Hpr] Stop posting to twitter/X, while continuing to monitor it.

[Ken Fallon]

Hi All,

We started posting to twitter, now x.com in August 2008, and we have 976 
Followers. I would like to suggest we stop actively posting there as the 
impact of the site has diminished.

While there probably was a time it was the place to be, my feeling has 
been for some time that we get no engagement there.

Recently they did an update which provides statistics on shows, showing:

Impressions
Times this post was seen on X
Engagements
Total number of times a user has interacted with a post. This includes 
all clicks anywhere on the post (including hashtags, links, avatar, 
username, and post expansion), reposts, replies, follows, and likes.

Checking the last few months, the Impressions metric for any given show 
hovers around the 30 mark, and has only peaked when there are click bait 
;-) tag words in there.

The Engagements on **all** episodes is 2 - both result from me boosting 
and responding, which I do to get around the limit on posting text.

There are about 4 shows where the Engagement jumps to 4, and usually 
where the host also has also boosted it.

Given the lack of engagement, I would like to relegate Twitter/X.com to 
the same status as Facebook and Linkedin. On these platforms we actively 
monitor and engage with people if they contact us, but do not post daily 
updates. We occasionally will post about the site been down or the New 
Year Show etc.

Therefore I suggest

Sites we post to on a daily basis:

  * Mastodon at https://infosec.exchange/@hpr
  * Matrix at https://matrix.to/#/#hpr:matrix.org
  * Telegram at https://t.me/+6fEhQrf5IEc4ZGU8

Sites we monitor:

  * #oggcastplanet <https://web.libera.chat/gamja/?channels=oggcastplanet>
  * Facebook
    <https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_130169220378872¬if_t=group_r2j>
  * Linked-In <https://www.linkedin.com/company/hackerpublicradio/>
  * iTunes
    <http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hacker-public-radio/id281699640>
  * twitter, x.com <https://twitter.com/hpr>

Thoughts ?

-- 
Regards,

Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN)
https://kenfallon.com
https://hackerpublicradio.org/hosts/ken_fallon
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