Twitter Concepts

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