There are a lot of hidden rules, tips and tricks to working in Twitter.
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The blue checkmark gives your tweets more weighting |
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| title | Respond more that you post |
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The ‘quote’ feature is helpful because then you ‘own’ the thread. There is a hide reply feature you can use if you own the thread. Don’t just repost. You get rewarded for being part of conversation more than trying to be a broadcaster. |
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| The blue checkmark gives your tweets more weighting | Build followers but follow selectively |
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One needs to be careful who you follow. If you are following too many people (like me) then you need to unfollow them. Follow less than a few hundred. If you need to unfollow - do a few accounts one by one. I am told the algorithm will notice. |
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| title | Try be the first to quote major accounts |
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They have more reach. Use the notification process. |
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| title | Most social media is very fragmented so you need to use concepts that people understand within a given context |
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It’s so easy to use jargon and concepts that people won’t understand. |
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| title | Build followers but follow selectively |
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One needs to be careful who you follow. If you are following too many people (like me) then you need to unfollow them. |
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It used to be good but no longer |
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| title | It takes sustained work - you need to make high quality content |
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| title | Common hack when posting on another users profile |
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Put a subtle character in front like a . i.e .@username blah blah It’s common technique so your followers will see your reply |
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| title | Don't be too contraversial |
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Talking about blacklisted topics destroys you While the list of blacklisted topics is private, you can use your own judgement on which topics might get you silencedI observe |
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All social media networks want to keep their readers in the network. Here's the cheat code: make your post, then a few minutes later reply with the outside link |
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| title | Only talk to quality accounts |
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Interact with accounts that bot, spam, and create harmful content, you're going to get dinged |
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| title | Make good content and bring to the attention of a major account - and get 8k organic views |
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https://x.com/eliotmuir/status/1756850843402285148?s=46&t=tXXJtkvJBEAxV8Xpuj7mnw I did this once but my execution was little random. Be careful with the message you want to deliver and to whom. This post resonated with the anti-psychiatry community but I managed to alienate them by talking about the need to be kind to psychiatrists in order to change their beliefs. So more thought required! |