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Someone explain to an EU pleb like me
Zohran is a radical socialist by American standards and Andrew is the poster boy for the rich and famous. Zohran won the democratic nomination for mayor of NY by a landslide, and looks poised to do the same with the election. Andrew is running as a third party because he’s butt hurt that money won’t save him.
And the “ratio” refers to looking at twitter engagement (e.g. retweets, likes, replies) relative to the tweet
I should have been more specific in my question. What did Mamdani reply with?
A link to contribute to his campaign, because if Andrew is truly in it to win it for the Democratic party then he would line up instead of running against Mamdani
To a “contribute” link, which, I assume, leads to somewhere where you can contribute to his campaign.
Thanks for that - I never really understood it. So is this an example of a good or bad ratio? (I don’t eX-Twitter at all, this is the extent of my social media presence)
The ratio just refers to how the original tweet has far less likes/quotes/retweets than the follow up reply. An example here would be having two lemmy comments, one as a reply, and the reply has significantly more upvotes. So the “ratio” of who has the most upvotes/likes/quotes etc shows what the overwhelming opinion is. In this specific case the original tweet has just over 4k likes while the response tweet has 133k
Zohran is a radical socialist by American standards…
Which means he’d be a pretty milquetoast centrist in countries with less insane political systems.
I don’t use this social media and am guessing little on the symbols, but I think the ratio is referring to likes for each.
Mandani- 133k likes
Cuomo: 4.2k likes
Also, Mandani replied to the sex pest so everyone that viewed Mamdani’s post saw Cuomo’s and had the opportunity to like it. A reply having 30x the likes of the one it replied to is wild.
Quomo would go on to lose the vote to Mamdani. By a lot.
This is recent (yesterday), it’s after the primary that Mamdani won. Cuomo is still running as a third party candidate.
Fuck dynastic political families.
And yet Cuomo gets 5x the engagement (views and quotes). As has been demonstrated, attention is all that matters, positive or negative.
Mamdani has to play the game, but Twitter is still a losing game to play.
If you look now, Mamdani’s tweet currently has 20x the retweets and 30x the likes. Most of the replies to Cuomo are telling him off.
Twitter shows Cuomo to more people, hence the views, but engagement is higher for Mamdani.
Twitter shows Cuomo to more people,
Exactly!
People liking Mamdani and telling Cuomo off already support Mamdani. If the goal is to expose Mamdani to newcomers/fence sitters, views from lurkers and such are what gets voters.
In other words, a high like ratio… feels nice. But if it doesn’t translate to more engagement (and it clearly does not, otherwise Twitter would be prioritizing serving Mamdani’s post), those likes aren’t translating to impact. In fact, hating on Cuomo drives more engagement in his favor because the Twitter algorithm knows outrage is engaging, and will expose more viewers to it.
As has been demonstrated, attention is all that matters, positive or negative.
Cuomo lost the primary. I don’t understand ‘what has been demonstrated’ beyond a sexpest failed governor staying in the race as an independent to spoil the elected primary choice in the NY general.
It’s insane how deeply institutional FUD over anyone left of Nancy Pelosi pervades the party. Y’all out here cynically doubting immediately, let the man fail on his own demerits, instead of maintaining the ‘another unelectable lefty smh’ meme you are rehashing.
I’m not saying he’s unelectable, I’m all for him. Screw Pelosi and the archaic Democratic establishment, they can burn.
And I’m not saying he’s in trouble because he’s too left.
I’m saying social media, specifically, is stacked against him. And people should restrain their celebration of feel-good upvote ratios as a victory, lest they fall into the illusion of feeling like he’s “trending” and breaking through.
Mamdani is also on Tiktok and his presence there is widely credited to have boosted his image and eventual primary win.
Well that’s good! I didn’t know that.
And Instagram which is where I found him, his media team is incredible
Mandani won the game. He won the primary in a landslide.
But Mamdani won and Cuomo lost the primary?
And they’re still trying to sabotage Mamdani in the general by splitting the vote.
that’s even worse for Cuomo. that makes the like percentage 7.4% vs .04% — that’s a 185 : 1 ratio
