That is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have read today, admittedly it is only 6 am but still, the idea of using 2 posts a second as a baseline for your example is so totally moronic I am forced to ask, do you understand the passage of time? Do you know what a second is? Have you had a traumatic brain injury that somehow gave you savant powers of photographic memory and information internalisation?
I want you to time how long it takes you to read this comment, comprehend its meaning and then move on. If it takes you longer than 0.5 seconds I think you have your answer.
No, what I'm saying is you aren't reading every tweet you scroll by. Scrolling by a tweet counts this. You don't stop and read every one, not everything is interesting or you really care about, you tend to read the ones that catch your eye, which can be a lot in between being fluff.
My point was and still is that to average 2 posts a second is insane as a baseline. Do you disagree with this? I don't doubt that people don't read everything, however to average 2 posts a second is ridiculous.
I just opened twitter, decided to look at it how I would normally for 10 seconds, did this 5 times. 14, 17, 10, 17, 19. This averages to 15.4 tweets per 10 seconds or 1.54 tweets a second. Not exactly 2, but I would say some people may be more or less. I wouldn't put it past them to go by 2 per second, especially if their timeline isn't well curated.
You underestimate how long a second actually is, and the size a tweet is on the screen, how most can be images that don't interest. You end up with a lot of nothing you scroll by to maybe read like 1 in 10 or less of them. It's doomscrolling for a reason.
Again, this is all in response to someone making the (ridiculous) claim that they see 2 posts every second. Without taking into account any interactions (shares, replies etc) or actually comprehending or processing anything that they see. However, the longer this interaction with you goes on the more I am inclined to believe that possibility.
They might see 2 posts but they aren't actively reading them, some of the posts **don't matter** so they are skipped over. On mobile you'd likely see 2-3 posts per scroll, if 2 don't interest you and it takes about a second to scroll some more, it'd likely actually average out to 2 posts, most of which are skipped because you aren't even reading them, just glancing and ignoring.
Open up the stopwatch on your phone. And count "one two" every second. Do that for 15 seconds and tell me honestly that there are many people who would average that sort of breakneck speed of using social media.
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u/HeyanKun 2d ago
How do you even see 2400 post in a single day