Obviously, I understand why most publications feel a responsibility to post links—context and facts are important! But are there some tweets where the benefit of the reach of not including a link outweighs the potential traffic from a deprioritized tweet with a link? Likely yes.
ALT Example of the same news being broken (Britney Spears conservatorship being terminated) by both Pop Crave and NY Times. Pop Crave's announcement doesn't have a link and has significantly more engagement than NY Times.
Both @PopCrave and @PopBase have some of the best reach on the entire platform. But why? Are they not just tweeting the same content that every other gossip/news site is posting?
Yes, but there’s one big difference. Pop Crave and Pop Base rarely post links.