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He brings up 75% of Twitter being mobile, which sounds like a good number. But, at least on the Google Play store, Feedly seems to have 1 to 5 million installs whereas Twitter has 100 to 500 million. So we're talking about 1% the number of users anyway. So it doesn't much matter what Feedly does since it won't make a dent on your page views anyway.

Depends on your audience. If you have a tech/iOS audience, Feedly users might be 10% of your visitors or more. Plus, Feedly might grow in the future.

And in any case, we should not encourage bad behavior, whatever the actual impact.

Isn't the point that the resultant tweets siphon traffic through feedly, regardless of whether the reader has feedly installed or not?

Not quite. If someone tweets from Feedly you have no idea how large an audience they would be reaching.

But how much of twitters tweets are webpage shares? That's the relevant comparison.

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