Like basically everybody who ever followed me saw one of my tweets and was like "ooh, I like this shit" and was then deluged by weeks of completely different, totally unrelated content And they stayed with me in spite of that immediate and shameless betrayal
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Oh yeah and also I've been spiking my own follower count by pretty much immediately blocking every new follower who looks even slightly sketch The only followers I have who haven't been screened are the ones who came through during a viral thread boom Prolly blocked 500 ppl
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But anyway yeah I mean the key to really high follower counts in my estimation is either A) to be important or B) to be single-minded If all I did was tweet within a fandom or something I'd probably be at 7k but like I cannot imagine a more desolate social existence
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But in any case follower count is kind of nebulous If you have 10k followers and none of them has logged in in two years, you effectively have no followers At best, algorithmically there might be a difference You're only as good as the extent to which followers use the site
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All of this is to say that for those of us who aren't single-minded or important, I think any number of followers above fifty is a massive achievement To be a scatterbrained fuck, and still have ppl looking in your general direction for longer than a second, proves your worth
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But in the spirit of full disclosure, I will address the elephant in the room and acknowledge I have brazenly cheated at Twitter via being cute af
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It’s more about quality than quantity, and you have some absolutely stellar followers.
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Part of that is because I'm a small enough account that I can sift through the likes of new followers and decide if I want that attention If I didn't block one in three new followers I'm notified about getting, I'd probably be at 4 or 5k right now
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apparently there are some people who have, like, multiple twitter accounts where their horny tweets go in one and their politics tweets go in another and then they have a fandom twitter... just thinking about it makes me dizzy more than zero followers is an achievement, tbh
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They are ways to chase higher follower accounts but a lot of them are boring.
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