3. There are 262m International Twitter users (users outside the US) which make up 79% of all Twitter accounts
4. 68m MAU In US
5. 14m users in UK (including inactive?)
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I think 10m public English DAU is a fairly conservative and plausible estimate. Maybe 20m? 30m?
10m is huge enough, really, for the purposes of my thought experiment
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I mean if it’s 140m DAU, let’s say 20% are in English, and 50% of those are public. That’s 14m. Reasonable guess I think. Maybe closer to 30-40% English, maybe 30-40% public.
Still should hit 10m English public DAU
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The question I’m trying to answer here is: how many unique individual people exist in the world who are on Twitter, who you could conceivably @ and get a reply from within a day? It’s over 1m. Over 5m. (More than the adult population of my whole country)
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Just think about the implications of that. Over 5,000,000 people you can talk to. People from all sorts of cultures, all sorts of backgrounds, with all sorts of knowledge and expertise, connections, relationships. All just sitting there an @-mention away
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“Oh but most people aren’t interesting, they’re just mindlessly scrolling and RT-ing dumb stuff etc”
Ok, what % of people are interesting? Say 1%? 0.1%? Let’s be harsh- 0.01%.
Applied to 5,000,000 DAU that’s 500 people. 500 amazing, fascinating people
Gotta catch ‘em all
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The crazy thing is I’m 99% certain that these 500 people don’t even really know each other. Maybe 100-200 of them are *loosely* connected, but the rest are very likely languishing in obscurity
I’m serious about finding them, and I’m serious about introducing them to each other
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What I’m describing here I think likely generalizes to all human networks. There are probably also about 500 really cool, interesting people in my city who aren’t on Twitter who I don’t personally know, who I’d really like to get to know
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And the nature of scenes means that interesting people become Much More Interesting when surrounded by other interesting people. This is how great art, great science, great everything happens
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one of my recurring talking points to anybody who's willing to listen:
any small group of people loosely-but-truly aligned on something can create powerful vectors by producing public-facing work that's directed at each other
talking about the creation of scenes, basically
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True, and it works beautifully. I've had a very large influx of Positive Weirdos since making contact with your feed some time ago.