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Eugene Wei

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Former product guy at Amazon, Hulu, Flipboard, Oculus. Blog at http://www.eugenewei.com 

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    Eugene Wei‏ @eugenewei 21 May 2018

    The rhetorical style of any Twitter account that continues to gain followers converges on that of a fortune cookie.

    4:59 PM - 21 May 2018
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    • Jay Dutta lola 🌻 Martin ankur Justin Case skiqh Honey Shriya Nevatia being sneaky for reasons
    35 replies 237 retweets 1,277 likes
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      1. John Noren‏ @norenjr 27 May 2018
        Replying to @eugenewei

        Brevity, wit, etc

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      2. Eugene Wei‏ @eugenewei 28 May 2018
        Replying to @norenjr

        QED

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Michael‏ @mmay3r 28 May 2018
        Replying to @eugenewei

        How many followers did this gain you? 😉

        2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
      2. Eugene Wei‏ @eugenewei 28 May 2018
        Replying to @mmay3r

        I am bad about tracking my follower count, but more in one day than ever before? The overall number still seems relatively small, though, so hopefully I am not in the fortune cookie death loop yet.

        1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
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      1. James Yu‏ @jamesjyu 21 May 2018
        Replying to @eugenewei

        By that do you mean they say things that have universal appeal?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      2. Eugene Wei‏ @eugenewei 23 May 2018
        Replying to @jamesjyu

        It’s tone and pithiness. Half fortune cookie fortune, half astrology.

        1 reply 1 retweet 22 likes
      3. OjOs‏ @OJOSdotcom 28 Jun 2018
        Replying to @eugenewei @jamesjyu

        We call this modality the “itinerant philosopher” but fortune cookie works.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Jason Nellis #Nellis2020‏ @jasonnellis 21 May 2018
        Replying to @eugenewei

        We're calling this the Wei Theory: As a follower account approaches infinity, the content approaches zero.

        0 replies 2 retweets 46 likes
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      1. Nikhil Krishnan‏Verified account @nikillinit 22 May 2018
        Replying to @eugenewei

        I think this is the case for audiences as a whole - see this with panels too. The bigger the audience you're trying to appeal to, the more abstract/general and contrived your pithiness a speak becomes

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      1. Filipe Fortes‏ @fortes 21 May 2018
        Replying to @eugenewei

        ... in bed

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      1. Michael‏ @mmay3r 27 May 2018
        Replying to @eugenewei @naval

        Struggle is figuring out what signal to care about.

        1 reply 0 retweets 16 likes
      2. Michael‏ @mmay3r 27 May 2018
        Replying to @mmay3r @eugenewei @naval

        Idea: system where I rate my own tweets. This creates a fingerprint based on the accounts that do/don't retweet/like. Then, it could rate my future tweets for me.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
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      1. Adam Singer‏Verified account @AdamSinger Mar 3
        Replying to @eugenewei

        Basically Naval.

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      1. Crypto Surfing‏ @crypto_surfing 22 May 2018
        Replying to @eugenewei @twobitidiot

        naval

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      1. Pardis Noorzad‏ @djpardis 21 May 2018
        Replying to @eugenewei

        A cynic is only a frustrated optimist.

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      1. Auryn  🧙‍♂️ オーリン‏Verified account @auryn_macmillan 23 May 2018
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        Meta

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      1. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv May 27
        Replying to @eugenewei

        Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Neil deGrasse Tyson

        https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1132799650463920128?s=21 …

        Visakan Veerasamy added,

        Neil deGrasse TysonVerified account @neiltyson
        Freedom isn’t free.
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