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Organic Social Twitter Impression shift

A question about possible reasons for a shift in impressions.

         

joshuahickman1987

9:38 am on Aug 4, 2022 (gmt 0)



Hello Everyone,

First post here.

I am a junior data analyst for a firm in London and one of my clients is noticing a shift in Twitter impressions. We are in charge of creating daily content for this client on twitter (posts, quizzes, threads, etc). We have been working with this client for nearly 2 years now, and the content we have been creating hasn't changed much. I did a content analysis between the years of 2021, 2022 and found that character count, post content, images and post replies).

In May of this year (2022), we noticed a significant drop in impressions. On a Year on Year perspective, in 2021, we were having well over 1 million impressions, where as now in 2022, we are maxing out at 500k impressions with a a norm of 250k. Needless to say, this was a significant drop in impressions from the previous year.

As this is coming from our content team, all of this falls under Organic Social, as such, none of the impressions were paid for. So the question I have is if anyone knows what could cause this drop in impressions? Was there a change in the algorithm? I am all ears to possible reasons for this shift in impressions.

Many thanks and cheers and advanced,
-joshuahickman1987

not2easy

1:56 pm on Aug 4, 2022 (gmt 0)

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Hello joshuahickman1987 and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

So many things intersected in May that might have an effect on Twitter engagement. Covid was on the wane (before the new variant). Travel was up. Weather got people more interested in outdoor activities. After Musk's offer (and turnaround) interest jumped both ways. An invasion in Ukraine was causing some disruption. Twitter got more serious about ridding their platform of automated usage. In other words, there is almost no way to know for certain the causes of shift without your having more extensive analyses of traffic to compare than bottom line numbers. Sorry to say.

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3:24 pm on Aug 4, 2022 (gmt 0)

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Welcome joshuahickman1987

This was one of the bigger changes in recent months. Twitter To Limit Visibility of Copypasta, Duplicate Content [webmasterworld.com] Could it have affected your program?