specifically, the increased visibility that comes from creating a thread of tweets, rather than individual ones
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std::mem::transmute_copy(steve, lol) Retweeted std::mem::transmute_copy(steve, lol)
over the weekend, i got to babysit Walter. This resulted in https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/888439106212122624 … andhttps://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/888531156576198656 …
std::mem::transmute_copy(steve, lol) added,
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because that first tweet wasn't connected to anything, it popped up in people's streams, and then, basically wasn't seen again all weekend
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but the second tweet, I kept threading the photos. and so the whole chain kept getting bumped up in feeds.
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i could actually see, in notifications, that people would see the most recent tweet, then the first, then down the chain
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and then also the related effect of someone else noticing, fav'ing, and then it getting put into others' streams due to that
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... and now that i've linked to those tweets again it is happening right now, ha!
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anyway, one weird side effect of this is, if i write a blog post and send out one tweet, lots of people will miss it. thanks algorithms.
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I pull 300k-1m impressions a day here. Zero chance I could even remotely come close on a blog post.
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Twitter threads are by far the most effective mode of amplification
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