Elon Musk told he's '100% wrong' for claiming Twitter is the internet's biggest click driver 'by far' - Yahoo! Voices

• Elon Musk claimed Twitter was "the biggest click operator connected the net by far" successful a tweet Saturday.

• The site's caller proprietor was wide mocked successful the replies by users rejecting his claim.

• Twitter generated 7.7% of referrals successful January, with 74.1% for Facebook, per Datareportal.

Elon Musk was wide mocked aft claiming that Twitter was the biggest operator of "clicks" to different websites connected the net "by far."

In a tweet connected Saturday, the caller proprietor of Twitter suggested the level was the biggest root of referrals to different websites. He was replying to an speech discussing however small postulation came from Twitter, with writer Matt Taibbi saying 10 minutes connected "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast was worthy a twelvemonth of tweets.

"Twitter drives a monolithic fig of clicks to different websites/apps. Biggest click operator connected the Internet by far," Musk replied.

He past came nether occurrence arsenic users pointed retired that Facebook was acold and distant the starring generator of postulation to different websites.

Tom Coates, a merchandise developer, tweeted: "100% wrong. Embarrassingly wrong. I mean adjacent if you disregard the hunt engines it's wrong. I tin consciousness your advertisement execs and partnerships radical (if determination are immoderate left) shriveling up the much you type."

Coates shared a study from Datereportal which suggested Twitter generated 7.7% of societal media referrals crossed societal media successful January, a fraction of the 74.1% of clicks from Facebook.

In presumption of each websites, Twitter ranked ninth successful presumption of traffic, conscionable supra big website Pornhub.

A 2016 study by information analytics tract parse.ly cited by NiemanLab recovered the mean quality organisation generated conscionable 1.5% of its postulation from Twitter, with the apical 5% of publishers receiving 11% of their clicks from the platform.

Former Twitter worker Claire Díaz-Ortiz said the assertion was false, and the institution ne'er sold itself to advertisers connected clicks due to the fact that it was good known they had acold less than sites specified arsenic Facebook.

Musk is looking for ways to marque Twitter profitable aft saying past week the institution was losing $4 cardinal a day. He laid disconnected astir 3,700 Twitter staff pursuing his $44 cardinal takeover to slash costs.

His archetypal effort to make caller revenue, the rollout of verification for $8, ended successful farce arsenic users wreaked havoc impersonating large figures similar George Bush and Tony Blair, arsenic good arsenic companies specified arsenic Lockheed Martin and Eli Lilly.

Musk has since reportedly touted the thought of putting the full website down a paywall, and has already floated the anticipation of bankruptcy successful his archetypal gathering with Twitter employees.

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