One of the interesting necessary conditions for wisdom of crowds to emerge is private knowledge. People must know something about X independently of others. Then sum can be greater than parts. Emergent wisdom.
Apply that to people who follow you (> 100 is a crowd).
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I suspect there’s precise math here. You probably need 500+ viral-tweet new follows to replicate wisdom boost of 100 independents.
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It’s actually pretty hard to deviate from the wisdom level of a crowd that’s allocated you an attention fraction. It can drag you down or lift you up to its level.
Goethe’s Faust but for crowd egregores rather than devil 😆
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There is a 3rd option: long term tweet drips
My 'viral' tweet that i'm most proud of probably got me the most followers. It took 3 years to to get ~97 rts
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