German news website @heiseonline has been very active on the #fediverse, now the second largest news account. Editor @mho has extensively documented the process.
Findings compared to their (6x sized) Twitter account:
Way higher engagement than Twitter
Website traffic slightly below Twitter
Valuable information for any news organisation that is debating whether to leave Twitter, and which platform to join instead!
@fediversenews @spreadmastodon
Read it all at: https://fediversereport.com/news-outlets-twitter-and-the-fediverse/
@fediversereport @heiseonline @mho @fediversenews @spreadmastodon
Sure. They re-share their own articles. This way it's easy seeming quite active.
@rc@tchncs.de @fediversereport
Hmm..
@heiseonline posts about 50 New articles every day and re-shares no more than 3 to 4 of them.
This is quite active, isn't it?
@mho @fediversereport
I counted 13 reposts of Heise posts since friday. On weekdays may be more.
Please stop reposts of your own stuff (Auto, Fotografie, Security, c't...). If I want to read that, I'll follow those accounts. Now I have most of that two times in my timeline. That's annoying.
The account shares all the articles, that are published on heise.de (im "Ticker"). Some articles there com from our Channel (heisec etc.) just like on #Mastodon. If you don't want to see this content, you could mute the channel.
But they are not "re-shares" because, they are only posted once by @heiseonline (as boosts and not direct posts).
@mho @fediversereport @heiseonline
OK, but shown as "heise online teilte".
@rc @fediversereport @heiseonline
Sure, but I would call that "sharing", not "re-sharing". "Re-sharing" would be boosting ones own posts..