Several of us overly online biologists spent years quietly doing an experiment on Twitter, trying to find out if tweeting about new studies from a set of mid-range journals caused an increase in later citations, compared to set of untweeted control articles.

Turns out we had no noticeable effect; the tweeted papers were cited at the same rate as the control set.

Our paper, headed by Trevor Branch, was published today in PLOS One:

#SciComm #Twitter #X #Science

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292201

Controlled experiment finds no detectable citation bump from Twitter promotion

Multiple studies across a variety of scientific disciplines have shown that the number of times that a paper is shared on Twitter (now called X) is correlated with the number of citations that paper receives.

^{journals.plos.org}

Grok chatbot is all set to go open-source!!!

https://news.itsfoss.com/xai-grok/

#ai #x

Elon Musk To Make xAI's Grok Chatbot Open-Source

A new chatbot entering the open-source arena. What are you doing OpenAI?

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

Time to Dump the #ElongatedMuskrat ,
Before the #ElongatedMuskrat
Dumps YOU!!

#DropTheBird #Xitter #X

@NPR dropped Twitter and maintained almost all of their traffic. #Journalists, get off #Twitter.

https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

#X #Elon

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports

The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic.

^{Nieman Reports}

I can't even...they're going to remove blocking from #Twitter or #X or whatever the fuck it's called today.

This is absolutely brain-dead. Muting only stops you seeing them. Blocking prevents them replying with shit that others will see, that you then can't see. Removing blocking is just so stupid.

So many reasons why a hard block is necessary from bots to harassment. They don't stop just because you can't see them ffs.

Japan Earthquake Alert App (1.9 million followers) Says Sayonara to X

"[..]We have decided that if we were to spend over ¥700,000 per month that it would be better if this money could go to developing our NERV app and strengthening our ActivityPub servers instead of X’s API. Therefore, we are beginning to cut down on our posts on X."

https://unseen-japan.com/nerv-app-x-twitter-leaving/
#X #Twitter #mastodon #activitypub #nerv #gehirn

Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X - Unseen Japan

Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.

^{Himari Semans (Unseen Japan)}