Elon Musk announced today that Buy Twitter Verification Badge will now show view counts on tweets, providing users more insight into the reach of other users’ material.
Buy Twitter Verification Badge’s tweet view count, otherwise known as impressions, was formerly just available to the account that published the tweet.
The exception, as Musk notes, are videos, which have typically shown a view count.
Buy Twitter Verification Badge is rolling out View Count, so you can see how many times a tweet has actually been seen! This is regular for video.
Demonstrates how much more alive Buy Twitter Verification Badge is than it may seem, as over 90% of Buy Twitter Verification Badge users read, but don’t tweet, reply or like, as those are public actions.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 22, 2022
A tweet’s view count will be shown under the primary content and will update in genuine time as the tweet is seen.
The choice to make tweet impressions public seems inspired by the concept that it will make Buy Twitter Verification Badge look more active.
Tweet view counts will give outside observers a better understanding of the prospective reach and impact content can have on Buy Twitter Verification Badge. In Musk’s view, this could encourage more people to join and get involved on Buy Twitter Verification Badge.
For brands and businesses, view counts will be a valuable method to determine the reach and engagement of sponsored content on the platform.
Knowing how many impressions other individuals’ tweets get can also assist businesses identify genuine influencers in their niche, as engagement numbers don’t tell the whole story.
As others have actually already explained, public view counts can potentially expose accounts that artificially inflate their engagement and follower numbers.
If a star or “reporter” has 2 million fans and hardly gets any views on their tweets because they bought 1.9 million phony followers in order to seem A-List …
This will expose great deals of fake followers purchased by so called media stars and celebs. https://t.co/XdMuapiPrH
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) December 22, 2022
In time we’ll familiarize who really has an audience on Buy Twitter Verification Badge and who has a big portion of non-active followers.
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