3 months ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
Not an X-pert, but I think the idea flows from X not having down votes. You cannot compare the up votes (the heart symbol) to the down votes like you would on other sites.
As a work around, people noticed that when some-one strongly agrees they "retweet" (the up and down arrows in a loop) but when they strongly disagree they write a rebuttal tweet, (the speech bubble symbol). Thus the ratio of replies to retweets serves as a rough measure of audience agreement.
If lots of people reply to your tweet (we presume they are replying to say that your tweet is wrong) and few people retweet (you tweet isn't getting spread) we say that the original tweet got "ratioed" and infer that it was disliked.
An irrelevant metric twitter fags think is important.
Elon asked a simple question. The fact that it has as many likes as it does is simply due to celebrity status. Elon could post a video of himself farting and get that many likes. Probably more.
Ian's reply is good and lays out a lot of the corruption. But the ratio is irrelevant because Elon wasn't trying to make a point. If Elon was trying to make the point that Jews are innocent then the ratio would be relevant but he wasn't.
226k vs 10k
As a work around, people noticed that when some-one strongly agrees they "retweet" (the up and down arrows in a loop) but when they strongly disagree they write a rebuttal tweet, (the speech bubble symbol). Thus the ratio of replies to retweets serves as a rough measure of audience agreement.
If lots of people reply to your tweet (we presume they are replying to say that your tweet is wrong) and few people retweet (you tweet isn't getting spread) we say that the original tweet got "ratioed" and infer that it was disliked.
Much like the 5 star "GOOD PRODUCT SAAAAAR FOR FUCK MOTHER!!!" reviews on Steam, Amazon, Yelp, Rotten Tomatoes, etc....
Elon asked a simple question. The fact that it has as many likes as it does is simply due to celebrity status. Elon could post a video of himself farting and get that many likes. Probably more.
Ian's reply is good and lays out a lot of the corruption. But the ratio is irrelevant because Elon wasn't trying to make a point. If Elon was trying to make the point that Jews are innocent then the ratio would be relevant but he wasn't.