Hey Twitter power users: have you figured out what makes people follow? I see so many tweets going ultra-viral, from accounts with just a few hundred followers. I would think with many thousands of engagements more of them would convert. So if not engagement, what does work?
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Hah, want to critique my bio??
It's a bit of a generic laundry list. The most interesting bit to me (if I hadn't heard nice things via friends-of-friends!) would be the bit about history and anthropology, juxtaposed with the tech. But there's nothing unique in the bio.
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Thanks, I appreciate it. It was my first pass, honestly reflects the subjects I think about most often, trying to give people an easy way to slot me into their pattern recognition...
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I'm sure for lots of people that's great. But at least for me I'm often happiest finding people who I have a hard time slotting into my pattern recognition. Not all, of course, but a lot.
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Bio phrases I loved & caused instafollow: "Fallibilist. Optimist" "Think, play, repeat" "The secure transport of light" "I want you to be everyone"
@KevinSimler's@rsnous's@kanjun's & many more. All me-specific; but also them-specific, ppl wearing some of thr heart on thr sleeve -
Any thoughts on whether I should post previous affiliations? Very few people have done VC with Peter Thiel, or worked as an economist at the NYFed during the financial crisis...
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