Twitter Concepts

There are a lot of hidden rules, tips and tricks to working in Twitter.

Be verified

The blue checkmark gives your tweets more weighting

Respond more that you post

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.

Build followers but follow selectively

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.

Try be the first to quote major accounts

They have more reach. Use the notification process.

Bots are allowed

Interesting - I observe that over 50% of my ‘followers’ are bots. Often pretending to be ‘women’ offering ‘pictures’.

Most social media is very fragmented so you need to use concepts that people understand within a given context

It’s so easy to use jargon and concepts that people won’t understand.

#Hashtags and tagging to many users is bad

It used to be good but no longer

It takes sustained work - you need to make high quality content

Common hack when posting on another users profile

Put a subtle character in front like a . i.e

.@username blah blah

It’s common technique so your followers will see your reply

Don't be too contraversial

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

No outside Links

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

Only talk to quality accounts

Interact with accounts that bot, spam, and create harmful content, you're going to get dinged

Make good content and bring to the attention of a major account

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!