I only said that because I was in a state of heavy flux while I was high as a kite on a lengthy euphoric episode. Totally back, b8#ches.
First things first. It's been just over a month since I lost Pinky twitter to abrupt permanent suspension with absolutely no reason given other than I broke twitter rules. I was doing nothing offensive in the usual ways, no spamming or racism, no bullying or porn sales, nothing at all in general that normally gets other twitter acquaintances temp suspended with actual reasons given and a countdown that lets them back in after a certain amount of time. Nope, I'm super permed, no reason other than a vague 'ban evasion' from when my Janika twit was suspended, but it took them a year and a half to do that, so that was an excuse. I was a techmod on a game server for years, I know how to flag IPs, pretty sure the twit team is set up more rigorously than a little game server.
I don't know what glitched, but I was suddenly able to see my old DMs one day and grabbed screenshots really fast, and then that blipped out of sight again. I can't use search on anything I've tweeted, so after ten years on that account, that means timestamps are lost to the ages, there's just no way to scroll back to find out when I tweeted this or that. All my hashtags are disconnected.
But dang, I can still get into analytics and was very surprised to see it's still counting my interactions via tags, mentions, and profile views. I'll start with pre-ban.
This is the ban month. This is only 10 days of live account. These are supposed to be friends, but they aren't really, apparently. I learned long ago that years of live tweeting TV shows with people doesn't make you friends, it's just a rut that replays over and over and over that people get used to and feel like family in but in reality it's just a frickin rut that keeps people drinking and watching TV in a big ol' rut together. It's a mind trap, and I've talked about the emotional angst of detangling from that over the years in other blogs.
And then post ban. I really was surprised to see this. The impressions simply come from being tagged so much, but what surprised me was how long they kept tagging me even with an obviously dead account. Did they come looking for me? No. They had ample time (years) to notice alt accounts connected through pinky blog. Why do they keep tagging a dead account? Are they really that deep into zombie land? It's like helloooo, hey brain dead people, you're wasting valuable twit space tagging someone who never gets notifications. And then I checked, sure enough, there was no drop off timestamp, that is still going on. Like holy cow, no wonder nothing ever got through to them.
Top tweets for posterity. 😂
Ok, so you'd think moving back to an account that's just been sitting there in stasis for a year would drastically drop my numbers, right? Wrong. Dayam. Just as I've said in past that pinky was wildly more popular than my Lexx fansites, strayhen is wildly more popular than pinky. And I don't mean that like it's a popularity contest, I mean it's just amazing interacting with real people who don't literally bury their brains to rot in ruts. They actually THINK. I've been having the most amazing experiences since pinky got perm banned. These screenshots are coming from my phone now because I'm trying not to cross the streams and get my still active IPs noticed since I'm still lurking around in my suspended accounts. Keep in mind NONE of my old friends followed me in to show up on this radar. I had over 2000 vetted 'real people' followers for nearly ten years, including actors, directors, and rabid TV watchers, because I regularly rigorously removed accounts that weren't behaving like real people (or, for example, people like that director who had a huge house party and was spamming live orgy porn out on twitter), so all the concerns I was expressing in blog posts about the brain trained are validated.
I do have to mention that my engagement rate on pinky twit actually topped 12% or higher during live tweet world broadcast events, but that kind of stuff is expected when you get in with a good live tweet team that knows how to hashtag and grab a lot of eyes on. Did not expect this on strayhen.
So my analysis of the analytics are pretty clear. Reminder for newbies to me, I've been doing analytics for years, beta tested several big platform analytics including google, and then proceeded to mock them in blog posts because I had 3 statitstics classes in college in 3 completely different professional fields (math, sociology, and geology/resource planning) and everything I could see in social analytics was about inflating 'impressions' (feeds) and not actually counting eyes on (noninteracting lurkers who actually read content). It doesn't matter how many feeds you can successfully hit with keywords and hashtags if no one is reading the feeds. That's why engagement rates are important. You have to combine all the different kinds of mathy ways to look at real time in order to gauge how you're really doing. By far, and I've validated this via triangulating both paid and free stat trackers that could catch link shared traffic from twitter and facebook to blog posts and forums, lurkers who never interact are the most important asset a person has and analytics reports across the board completely fail to acknowledge them as vital. I've been able to demonstrate across blog analytics that lurkers bring in more lurkers and they will sit there and read everything I've got public, link my stuff into private sites (one was a validated site supporting suicide victim families, I'm a 'depression blogger'), and translate my content into other languages and host on their own sites. Analytics does NOT catch that level of interaction because it doesn't engage, so big fail on that, technocratic platforms. Shame on you. It's all about making your own dime and seducing users to buy into professional level analytics accounts.
So I just validated the great awakening movement, y'all are having a huge impact on my stats, and never, ever, EVER feel like you aren't being heard even if it looks like no one is engaging. Your voices all matter, and your voices are the ones actually being sought out and listened to by other real people.
Pinky totally approves.
I miss my #pinkyrobot hash feed.
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