The Optimal Blog Post Length to Maximize Viewership
tomtunguz.com
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- he samples only his own writing
- he has a far bigger sample of "medium-length" articles (how big are his samples of 100 word posts? 2000 word posts?)
- the title seems intentionally misleading, making it seem like it was actually a scientific analysis, and that a positive result was actually found
- content isn't controlled for. How are retweets a useful metric for measuring optimum length? Wouldn't that have far more to do with content?
- doesn't take into account the presentation of information
- doesn't take into account his audience
- etc, etc.