Nieman Lab·2026-04-13
BREAKING: These are the kinds of news tweets that perform best
For news publishers, links are life. But, as I reported last week, publishers appear to face a penalty when they link to their stories on X. I used Claude to scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18 different publishers, then charted their median engagements (likes + comments + RT s). Posts with links definitely do worse. The New York Times, which includes links in 88% of its tweets, has 53 milli
对于新闻出版商而言,链接是其生存命脉。然而,正如我上周报道的那样,出版商在X平台(原Twitter)上分享其报道链接时,似乎会遭遇表现不佳的惩罚。我利用Claude工具抓取了18家不同出版商的200条最新推文,并绘制了它们的互动中位数(包括点赞、评论和转发)。结果显示,包含链接的帖子表现确实更差。《纽约时报》88%的推文都包含链接,其互动量达到5300万...