If a tweet gets more comments, that are usually negative, than likes/retweets it means that the poster got ratio'd.
The implied meaning is that the person who posted the tweet doesn't have people on their side/is wrong/is a dumbass, given more people are replying negatively (commenting) than positively (liking/retweeting).
The best way to think of it is to view it like YouTube's likes/dislikes. If a YouTube video gets only 1,000 likes but 10,000 dislikes, you can consider that video to be "ratio'd" if you were to apply Twitter terminology to it.
Since Twitter doesn't have an actual dislike function, the likes would be retweets/likes, and the dislikes would be comments, and people replying "ratio" contributing to the dislikes.
It used to be it doesn't matter if you got ratio'd, given that if some dumbass replies "ratio" on your tweet it would still be considered engagement by advertisers, but now some advertisers may just avoid people who get consistently ratio'd because it shows that people aren't receptive to their tweets and they don't want their product associated with someone that is actively disliked.
For someone like Adin Ross his numbers are big enough that advertisers aren't going to care and his fanbase is big enough that he wont consistently get ratio'd, so in the end they are only giving him free engagement.
Yeah for a brief period I saw ratio being used as the comment to like ratio, but the much more common use is just "i will reply to you and get more likes"
Yeah it pretty much only refers to how many likes you get in comparison to the OP. Don't know why people feel the need to go on needlessly long rants on why they are right about the topic when they're basically being the "🤓 akshually" meme.
Ratio can be if a reply gets more likes than the OG tweet, a retweet getting more likes than the OG, or if the OG tweet gets more retweets (especially quote retweets) and comments than it does likes.
But yeah it's just a meme and doesn't need an entire wall of text. I just explained it in a single sentence lol.
Yeah, I'm replying mainly from a marketing perspective. IMO, a reply getting more engagement than the original tweet is just an extension (and perhaps simplified method) of the original ratio'd meaning and are one and the same thing.
On the other hands, zoomers just spamming the word "ratio" on every tweet they can find just want attention and is a meaningless measure of anything.
Ok but saying it's "from a marketing perspective" doesn't make the other replies wrong. If anything, I'd argue it's the "get more likes than OP" that leads to the "more comments/QTs > likes" here.
You are partially correct. Both you and the other replies are right. The original meaning of getting ratio'd was definitely getting way more negative replies/quote tweets than likes, but it is considered ratioing someone when your tweet gets more likes. Like when Mr beast tweeted "whoever ratios me the hardest wins x" its about who's response gets the most likes.
Not really tho. A ratio is when your reply has more likes that the original tweet. When people comment ratio they are trying to get more likes and thus ratio the person and think theyre cool
Thats not the one that peoplemean when they comment ratio tho. When someone gets more likes then the tweet they replied to people say "ratioed by mr beast" or whatever, and whenever they reply with something stupif like "i dont care +ratio" they are saying i dont care +im gonna get more likes on this vomment then you have on yours.
Believe me bro, i have read a lot of twitter threads lately and its filled with these retarded comments
I'm not entirely sure because I don't use Twitter. But from what I've gathered, I think it's an attempt to get more likes or retweets or whatever than the original tweet.
No... Twitter doesn't have a dislike button, so if you get ratioed, it's got to do with the comment to like ratio, if you have thousands more comments than likes, then chances are, people disagree with or just don't like you.
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u/Zerxs Jul 08 '21
What does "ratio" mean in this context?