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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Jan 2019
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    Viral outcomes no longer motivate me at any level from tweet to blog to book. A spike is a very dull kind of attention profile. I like other kinds better now. The steady burn, the cyclic endemic meme, the incepted word, the compounding secret language, the long-running gag....

    6:48 PM - 19 Jan 2019
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    • Emerson Spartz Alex Schleber 👽😷 eripsa Dan at home and off the Calle Andrew Zuckerman Topical Joke Name Here tricksy tranny Jurjen Vorhacker ᵁᴿ ᴳᴱᴵˢᵀ ᴵᴺ ᴾᴼᴸᵀᴱᴿᴳᴱᴵˢᵀ
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      2. Ryan Bethencourt‏Verified account @RyanBethencourt 19 Jan 2019
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        I agree with you, it's like trying to capture your 15 mins of fame, it's always fleeting! Increasingly I'm wondering what's next past the feeling of hoping to go viral?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Jan 2019
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        I think we’ll come to view it as an evolutionary phase in the digital age

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      2. Devon‏ @devonzuegel 20 Jan 2019
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        Really hoping this goes viral

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      3. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 20 Jan 2019
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        Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy

        Vgr mutuals unite Cc @sonyaellenmannhttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1087013420828745728?s=21 …

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        Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv
        If you’ve been enjoying my tweets, etc, I’d love it if you helped me annoy my friend by making his “I don’t care about viral outcomes” tweet go unnecessarily viral https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1086817638053961728 …
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      2. InTheGames‏ @TheInTheGames 20 Jan 2019
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        Is "amount of viral" proportional to its decay? Because it might still have long term effects if it's viral enough.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Jan 2019
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        Yes. It’s just rarely the most efficient or elegant way to achieve the effects. Like using a flash flood to clean streets.

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      2. Lukas Neville‏ @lukasneville 20 Jan 2019
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        so as a non-famous twitter person I've had a rare few tweets blow up, and they've made me really question the value of virality/audience my notifications, usually conversions with people I like, turn into a tidal wave of dumb comments from egg accounts

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Jan 2019
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        Yeah twitter virality without a place to direct the attention is even more useless. That’s why ‘check my soundcloud’ became a meme

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      1. Solgud‏ @praenosco 19 Jan 2019
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        A bit like diet. No need for the sugar rush

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      2. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd 19 Jan 2019
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        It's not dead, it's a sleeper hit.

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      3. das blinkenlight‏ @tubelite 19 Jan 2019
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        Pining for the fnords.

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