A few days ago I talked about how, when you interact with a very high follower account, you engage with their socio-cultural position not the person. Pretty wild how I only now get celebrity.
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Replying to @Shugars
I’m still small enough that I recognize and read a lot from people who chat with me. like, it feels very personal to me. But, I think I’m the 50k or so range, it shifts in a way that makes it a space of constantly shifting strangers and directionless feedback.
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Replying to @generativist @Shugars
I’m at like 50% you and the weirdest bit has been the niche fame?? I’ve had people come up to me at other people’s events I’m just squatting at in ny like I JUST WANTED TO SAY I LIKE YOUR TWEETS
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Replying to @farbandish @Shugars
It’s definitely really weird. But it’s such a great experience because it just opens up so many fantastic conversational doors that I wouldn’t have had by any other means. I’m not shy but conference self-intros are so exhausting!
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Replying to @generativist @Shugars
Ditto! But I always worry I’m disappointing people. I got lunch with a load of people after a talk I did recently and professors had come from /other universities/ to see it and ended up feeling like I was both too loud and too insufficiently present.
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Replying to @farbandish @Shugars
Oh yea, same. I think
@MaureenBug had a thread on this but my competency is fading as my drink has now kicked in so I couldn’t find it.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
which thread?
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Maybe it was in person? But the idea of people expecting a different you at conferences?
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oh ya probably in person, bc i don't remember having a thread on that
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