Mullenweg: Internal sentiment analysis showed 52% negative reaction on Twitter
Matt Mullenweg · Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand · Mar 2, 2025 · at 1:12:27
Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and WordPress co-founder, discusses public backlash during his dispute with WP Engine and analyzes sentiment across various social networks.
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“We ran a sentiment analysis recently. We were kind of like looking at different social networks, analyzing all the comments, and we found actually that the negative, you know, the sort of devil horn fraction on like what was it? Like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram was like eight percent. It's actually pretty small. On Reddit, it was like bigger. I forget the exact number. But on Twitter, it was 52%.”
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