broke: follower count as precise indicator for social worth and entailing neurosis woke: follower count as rough indicator for voice-audience fit
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Replying to @_StevenFan @mattskala
reality I guess is we are highly tuned into our social landscapes, not giving a fuck is some dynamic combination of privilege and a superpower
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Replying to @_StevenFan
I've got goals for which having a large and growing audience is important, so shouldn't I be paying a lot of attention to whatever metrics I can get - and the experience of not caring, a sign of general disconnection from my goals?
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Replying to @mattskala @_StevenFan
Of course I'm not saying that everybody caring a lot about follower count is a good thing. But it doesn't come naturally to me to assume that *not* caring is automatically better.
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Replying to @mattskala
more broadly, exploratory stance here it's a cycle between confidence to venture out and take risks (not caring) and nurturing whats good or cutting what what doesn't work
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Replying to @_StevenFan @mattskala
also there's risk of overfitting your messaging to what an individual tweet does to your follows
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Replying to @_StevenFan
At this point I don't think I can know what an individual tweet does to my follows; the follower number fluctuations are small and slow enough, and I post often enough, that I couldn't confidently link a tweet to an unfollow. Even my more "viral" tweets seldom gain me followers.
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Replying to @mattskala @_StevenFan
I have more confidence in retweet numbers for individual tweets, but so few of my tweets actually get significant numbers of retweets, that that ends up being an overfitting nightmare too.
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Replying to @mattskala
in someways it's possible likes can be a red herring, like the interesting but dense and uncertain information neutrally presented could be a bread and butter reading for audience but not 'likable'
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Replying to @_StevenFan
I'm more interested in retweets than in likes because they seem less ambiguous, and (almost uniquely) they put my work before new eyes. Follows describe my current audience; retweets potentially expand my audience; likes have a vague meaning that varies a lot by context.
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i have not cracked the retweet nut 
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