This chart, powered by Majestic Author Explorer highlights the growing dominance of X / Twitter in the news cycle. The data is not gathered from X, but instead across the web by the Majestic web crawling network.
This graph captures the popularity of social media posts (tweets) by counting the number of websites (domains) linking to an individual post. The peaks tend to correspond to months when a number of news stories are running, some of which begin as posts on the X / Twitter social network. Ref Domains refers to coverage rather than unique linking websites. The same website may be counted multiple times in the Ref Domain total. This occurs when a number of different social posts have been linked to from the same website.
Zoom into the ten most popular posts on any given month by clicking on the chart above. The dates are estimated and refer to the post creation date.
