I'm reaching a follower size where keeping up with mentions is starting to consume a lot of time but I feel obligated to and also benefit from doing so tremendously. It's disorienting and I bet having a real big account is like being stretched in two.
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Like, I'm not complaining. It's *really* rewarding and gives me sooooo many largely unearned advantages (via a preferential attachment mechanism). But, it's not something I would have ever properly anticipated.
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i think about this a lot and am always thinking about how I'm going to have to deal with it as things get more intensehttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1052496832155144194 …
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Visakan Veerasamy @visakanvAlso see Neal Stephenson's "Why I Am A Bad Correspondent" > I am trying to be a good novelist, and hoping that people will forgive me for being a bad correspondent. https://www.nealstephenson.com/why-i-am-a-bad-correspondent.html … pic.twitter.com/l1LxNUufR5Show this thread3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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At some numer you must cross a threshold where it stops being about interacting with people and starts to become broadcasting to an audience (think of people with millions!). But You
@generativist *follow* nearly 14k people, I can't grasp how that works in your timeline!3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
Yea. And really, I don't want to be a one-to-many broadcast channel alone, so that's the frustration. (And, I have some apps I wrote that change the way I interact with twitter. Although, I'll probably prune out people I *never* interact with even by liking their stuff soon.)
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