At the risk of being entirely too self absorbed, some musings on having ten thousand followers. Twitter is clearly a video game, and for a certain type of person (monomaniacal min-maxers; me) there is a kind of fixation or compulsion to make numbers bigger
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There is a curious effect when one thinks in terms of numeric milestones, wherein goalposts become objects of obsession, and then the moment they are reached, apathy. As Nietzsche said, the moment he reaches his goal, he transcends it
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Zero HP Lovecraft Retweeted Zero HP Lovecraft
Of course the special magic of twitter is that the game loop consists of wrangling engagements out of other actual people. Some play for approval, others for outragehttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1047843422336212992 …
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Either way, it’s exactly as pointless as any other multiplayer game. One of the best mini-games is mocking people who take it too seriously, which isn’t to say that I’ve never gotten caught up
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Zero HP Lovecraft Retweeted Michael
The strategy to get big on twitter is to get noticed by bigger accounts than you and say the kinds of things they are likely to retweet.https://twitter.com/mmay3r/status/1097817412341133313 …
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However many followers you have, write to the biggest accounts that follow you. Doing this intentionally is inauthentic, of course. Then again, if a big account follows me I will often write a thread that I think will interest them, simply out of a desire to communicate
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Zero HP Lovecraft Retweeted Zero HP Lovecraft
Size is relative, of course. 10k, paltry! Of course anons are playing a different game from people who are real life famous. Our brains can’t really process what it means to send a message to ten thousand people, let alone half a million.https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1042165403487617025 …
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10,000 accounts is massive. My peak Twitter enjoyment was at 50,000. I think it was you who said, “The more who read you, the less you can say.”
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Replying to @Cernovich
In fact I quote retweeted that very thing downthread
0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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