- From my ridiculousness audit
- Itâs ridiculous that I used to have ~700 twitter followers, and since my account got suspended (they thought I was a bot), I canât summon the energy to break free of my ~150 follower containment
- I have proved that I can gain followers organically. It took ages, but itâs possible, and with my new account, a bunch of cool large-follower accounts have re-followed me, so thatâs great signal
- Partly itâs that I donât want to be reading tweets for more than like 5 mins a day
- I think twitter was really fun when I was having multiple back-and-forth interactions with various âtpot friendsâ daily, where weâd like each otherâs tweets and comment etc. Whereas I have a sense that I donât want to be hanging out there, I donât want to be reading other peopleâs stuff much. So thereâs a feeling of âtweeting into the voidâ, which of course feels worse
- Possible solution â get over this âI donât want to read other peopleâs tweetsâ thing. Perhaps only follow a handful of people, make friends with them, interact with them a bunch. Then it feels like more of a conversation again
- I have a group chat with 2 friends and Iâm much more likely to send stuff in there, âcheck out this thing I just wroteâ, âhereâs a photo of where I am right nowâ, âhereâs a random thoughtâ, etc
- This feels better than tweeting (especially when you only have ~150 followers) because itâs part of an ongoing conversation with friends
- But, it also doesnât cumulate! At the very least, I should endeavour to always tweet too, to get the best of both worlds
- Itâs full of great people who are aligned with me and who share my context (that is, stuff from the post-rationalist path)
- Itâs full of possible friends, teachers, mentors, collaborators. People to help and be helped by, people to hang out with, people to crew with, etc