Observations on Twitter Traffic

So I’ve been somewhat active on my Twitter account for a few months now.  I currently follow 28 accounts and have 10 “followers.”  My posts get extremely low numbers of impressions.  Typically double digits or possibly low triple digits.  But yesterday I replied to a tweet by Matt Walsh asking opinions on his documentary.  My reply garnered 36,803 impressions, 1,000 likes, forty “retweets” and twenty replies.

So what does this tell me?  I guess not much of anything.  This little blip of viral attention will have no impact on my Twitter visibility.  All it tells me is that Twitter is a megaphone and when it wants to amplify something it has enormous reach and when it doesn’t care one way or another you might as well be talking to a wall.

And maybe that’s reality.  We all live in our own little bubbles and the next bubble over is completely insulated from yours by the impervious medium we float in.  There are all kinds of experts in marketing that supposedly know how to get something noticed.  I wonder if any of it is real.  Well anyway I thought this might be interesting.

 

Are There Any Smart People in the Stupid Party? Build Us an On-Line Town Hall

Dementia Joe and the forces of darkness are working overtime to reduce what’s left of the United States to rotted rubble.  And although they are doing incalculable damage to millions of good people, they are also convincing the rational remnant of the population that isn’t also incurably evil that something must be done about the present situation.

This presents a remarkable opportunity for someone with something on the ball.  The social and financial leverage available to someone on the right who actually has a workable plan is not unlimited but it is formidable.  Back during Obama’s tenure Americans on the right were looking for a movement to support their dissatisfaction with the political situation.  As it worked out hucksters appeared to grift money from those well-meaning people and dissipated the political energy that existed.

But ten years later we are in an even more dire situation.  The American people are even more incensed by the horrifying reality of the Biden abomination and the Deep State actors that are inflicting a soviet-like surveillance state on them.  Why isn’t there some legitimate right-wing leader to focus that anger and channel it into something constructive.  Are our leaders really all that useless?  Are they just simply as stupid as their reputation says they are?  That is the million-dollar question.

Yesterday a little bit of news came out.  Donald Trump is planning to build his own social network platform.  But what will it be?  Will it be Right Twitter, Right Facebook?  Will it be more than that?  Does Donald Trump even know what it will be?  These are all good questions.  But a better question is what do we need?

What I think we need is an on-line town hall with the alleged Republican leaders plugged in on a regular basis.  We need to be able discuss the issues and we need actual leaders to provide us with feedback and hopefully solutions to the situations we are being subjected to.  It has to be more than just us peons complaining about the horror we are enduring.  We need powerful people to provide us with solutions.  It’s understood that some problems can’t be solved overnight or maybe ever but honest talk about what can be done and what will have to be endured will go a long way toward giving these leaders credibility and backing from their people.

And add into this town hall a place for the pundits and the reporters.  And while we’re at it add in the entertainers and the artists.  That means comics on our side will actually have a place to tell their jokes and mock the Left without being de-platformed.

Well, that should be enough.  That sounds like a combination of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and also the News Media the way it was supposed to be, along with an interactive version of FDR’s Fireside Chats thrown in for good measure.  That’s about what I think we need.  So, if Mr. Trump is going to provide that then he’s hitting the market at just the right time.  I’d be willing to take the $100+ I give to Bezos for Amazon Prime and switch it over to something like what I’m discussing here.  I imagine it would be worth that much to me.  Maybe they could have a discount plan for the poor but eight bucks a month wouldn’t be asking too much to get something of our own that the SPLC won’t be able to shut down.  Oh, and I forgot.  It’s going to need its own online payment service provider and probably a bank to do business with it.  But billionaires can take care of things like that too.  So, get going.

You get the idea; we need a nerve center for the normal people.  The Left has Google and Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and heaven knows what else.  I don’t think it’s too much that we have a place too.  So, President Trump and whichever of your friends with money and savvy are out there consider this your golden opportunity to capture an untapped market of about fifty to a hundred million people who are currently unserved and starving for a home on line.