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Should I intentionally tweet better? 2025-10-24

Nov 06, 20257 min read

  • 2025-10-24
  • My profile:
  • I’ve been on a like, “becoming a main character” arc (e.g. Simon Ohler did a speech at his birthday party about this that he said was largely directed at me, lol)
  • (I also have 75 Substack subscribers, but I don’t wanna think about Substack right now)

1. What’s the point in having more twitter followers?

  • Meh:
    • Something about twitter being a serendipity engine… uninspiring as a story atm IMO (but clearly valid)
    • Something about twitter being a way to make friends… also uninspiring atm
    • Ultimately there is a bit of a sense of it actually not mattering all that much…
  • Actually, I think what matters to me is the main character thing of like, choosing to step into a bigger role, choosing to be more useful and valuable, etc. Like, I don’t have to, I can vibe in obscurity, that’s totally fine, I’m having a nice time with the following that I currently have. But it’d also be cool to be like “you know what, let’s take this a little more seriously”. This is actually a thread I’m on more broadly, stepping into a bigger role, a bigger story

Stepping into a bigger story

  • Recently I’ve started dressing better and it feels like a similar thing somehow. Like, I am stepping into my handsomeness via adding a necklace every day, a gold ring, nice shirts, a nice watch, an ear-ring etc (lol), and it’s made me feel pretty swaggy, and it is changing how I show up and am received in the world (legit, cool things have happened as a result of this).

    • 👆 Like, I really like this outfit, having a necklace, having an 80/20 beard, lol

  • So, taking my twitter seriously feels like a similar thing. It’s all fractal versions of the same thing → taking myself seriously, valuing myself highly

  • What’s that thing people say of like “the way you do something is the way you do everything”.

  • So like, choosing to do twitter well, to be useful and of service and a good presence, to be a useful player who is proudly stepping into their role, and also, taking myself seriously as someone who has grown and is on an interesting path etc

    • (In an aletheia session recently I had this steely determination feeling and this felt sense of being a knight, this silver sense of having a mission and a shiny set of armour and a sword etc)

2. Ok so what should I do?

  • I have a sense that some pretty small changes could help a lot. E.g., intentionally thinking “how can I flesh out this idea a bit”/“how can I make this more useful/interesting” → that shit is useful for me too, which is really what matters more

Auditing my last 50 tweets

  • Profile:
  • Likes on last 50 tweets:
    • Average = 19 likes per tweet (pulled up by outliers)
    • Median = 9 likes per tweet
  • I want to aim for my tweets to be 5x as good (median of 50 likes per tweet)
    • That’s kinda it IMO, that’s the thing that can be focused on immediately
    • Easy to remember too, and feels doable

🚨 Goal !!!

Aiming for median of 50 likes per tweet, AKA for my tweets to get 5x better

3. How do I make my tweets 5x better?

1. Don’t tweet non-interesting things

  • Easy one → don’t tweet non-good stuff
  • AKA improve my signal-to-noise ratio
  • There’s something in me of like, I wanna honour my experience and tweet lil mundane things like this. But idk, maybe an alt account? Maybe a message to a friend? Maybe just like, write the thought down in an apple note?

2. Avoid vagueness/poor wording

  • 👆 this is a very profound thread for me, but the tweet is vague and shrug-worthy
  • 👆 This too. Could have been improved by telling a story, reflecting on what life used to be like re: this
  • 👆 kinda hard to parse, could’ve been worded in a much more compelling way

3. Flesh things out - make them interesting

  • 👆 this is a throwaway thought that doesn’t tell you anything

Summary

  • Is the key thing just “make tweets useful/interesting/tell a story”
  • “Is this useful/interesting/well written?“

4. Good tweets of mine

1. Life update that points at growth

  • (These all probably succeed at the “how to make tweets 5x better” things too → they won’t be vague, they won’t be non-interesting, they will be fleshed out/complete-feeling)

2. Life update that points at growth + possible thing to do

  • 👆 bookmarks = people thinking “I should return to this”

3. Good, unique writing

4. Place to share resources

Appendix

My top tweets as of 2025-10-24, ascending order

1 - Alternative life history

2 - My Substack post that name-drops Sasha Chapin

3 - Art about tpot

4 - Life changing blog post re: learning

5 - Dropping people-pleasing

6 - Touch starvation

7 - Wanna be in a relationship

8 - Childhood bedroom unlock via IFS

Has anyone written guides on how to tweet better?

Visa’s 3 types of tweeting

Looking at other people’s good tweets

Brooke

Jess

Sasha

  • Fucker deleted his twitter again I guess? To the slide deck!

Maebe

Brent

Simon

Jono

Rich

5. Conclusion

Ok what I have learned from looking at all these good tweets

  • Have interesting ideas and communicate them well
  • Lol

Cynical

  • There’s also more kind of cynical intentional stuff that could be done (Brooke Bowman did encourage me to do this kinda stuff lol, although she didn’t point at specific things)
  • I can imagine e.g. quote-tweeting more stuff to build on other people’s ideas/starting points, resurfacing banger tweets from other people, etc

Feedback from others

  • Simon:
    • Write tweets in such a way that they read well, that they have a good kind of poetic flow to them, that they sound good when read out loud
  • Rich:
    • Just tweet more bro
    • (This is the Rivalvoices approach too)

People are more likely to read a thread than a long tweet?

Some big accounts say “just tweet more”, I like Vivid’s advice more

  • I have a sense that quantity isn’t everything, that of course thinking about writing well, memetic fitness etc makes sense. So I like Vivid’s thing

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