"jump" ratio = 230,000 / 400,000,000,000 = 0.0575% of users. The English are masters of understatement, which is why BBC did not say "users leap" and used the word jump instead ..
Shouldn't BBC wait just a bit, like a month, before breathlessly telling us how users are jumping to another network?
Do you think stories like this may influence people to leap or jump to Mastedon?
And would you characterize this piece by BBC as "making news" or "reporting news"?
Isn't that the whole point of that article? When the exact same thing happened to a different political option (people moving to Parler, or Gab) the whole coverage was about making the move as unpalatable as possible.
It is 100% making news at the moment, and it is quite obvious that mainstream journalists are a bit uneasy about no longer being the protected cast on Twitter.
Shouldn't BBC wait just a bit, like a month, before breathlessly telling us how users are jumping to another network?
Do you think stories like this may influence people to leap or jump to Mastedon?
And would you characterize this piece by BBC as "making news" or "reporting news"?