BlogaBull is off Twitter this season, here’s why
It’d likely be more proper to provide a more holistic ‘state of the blog’ post as it heads into season 22 of covering the Chicago Bulls nominal basketball franchise. More specifically, it does feel like a bit of a new era if I follow through with my self-promise to stop Tweeting.
It’s been a slow death for the bullsblogger account on eX, pretty much coinciding with the platform’s slow death after its purchase by Elon Musk. I no longer live-tweeted games1 and got into fewer spats with “Bulls Twitter”, and tried to keep it as a way of publicizing the blog posts.
There are ample reasons why it was becoming morally wrong to use that app anymore2. But I found over the last few months especially it wasn’t even producing enough benefit to work the bile down my throat. I’m assuming it’s due to how the platform deemphasizes non-verified users. Now usually when people complain about the algorithm it’s never with the self-reflection of maybe it’s because their Tweets sucked. Though I don’t think mine did: I had some amazing Tweets over the years. It was a very funny account!
For the past few months I’ve been only getting something like 5-7% of views from Twitter, and when that was bumped to like 10% on occasion those posts also had more reach overall.
Most traffic comes from the email subscriptions. This is also a major change from the past (when on SBNation), but one I’ve been ok with. What I am struggling with in Twitter’s absence is the cases where people were using the app to get updates on when posts were made. And for the people that liked something I wrote but not enough to subscribe for every post, Twitter served as a good aggregator to where the good (or at least popular) shit would find its way to people who don’t check often.
