Twitter Concepts
Eliot Muir
There are a lot of hidden rules, tips and tricks to working in Twitter.
The blue checkmark gives your tweets more weighting
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.
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.
They have more reach. Use the notification process.
Interesting - I observe that over 50% of my ‘followers’ are bots. Often pretending to be ‘women’ offering ‘pictures’.
It’s so easy to use jargon and concepts that people won’t understand.
It used to be good but no longer
Put a subtle character in front like a . i.e
.@username blah blah
It’s common technique so your followers will see your reply
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
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
Interact with accounts that bot, spam, and create harmful content, you're going to get dinged
Eliot Muir (Iguana) on Twitter / X
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!