B
Evidence Grade B
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8,700,000
8,700,000 -- follower count for NPR main Twitter account (2023)
NPR's main Twitter account had 8.7 million followers when NPR stopped posting on the platform.
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Value
8,700,000
Unit
Count
Data Vintage
2023
Entity
Geography
US
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
NPR
Primary
Tier B
https://512pixels.net/2023/10/twitter-wasnt-worth-the-effort/ ↗
Source Article
Twitter Wasn’t Worth the Effort
Gabe Bullard at Nieman Reports, reporting an internal memo from NPR, which left Twitter back in April:
Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leavi…
Original Research
NPR
· Original study ↗
Methodology
Internal NPR memo shared with Nieman Reports
Methodology documented
Segmentation
IndustryMedia
RegionUS
RoleAll marketers
Channelsocial
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NPR main Twitter account: 8,700,000 follower count. Source: NPR (2023). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/npr-main-twitter-account-followers-2023
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