Prompt: What advice would you give to public intellectuals whose work you admire, but who use Twitter poorly? (Please subtweet, don't CC.)
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Avoid politics. It's a great way to lose half your audience.
huh. I see why you (and others) feel this way, but politics is actually one of the reasons I like to follow public figures 
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there are a few who are non-boring at it and by making it look easy they encourage weaker men to politics
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I call this "the tube top principle". Maybe you can do it well, but most can't, and you're encouraging it.
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Depends on the public figure. A novel author has nothing to gain, and everything to lose.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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