1. They spend 30+ minutes per day sourcing and refining 1-3 daily tweets. They don't wing what they say, and they typically sit on each idea for a few days.
2. Key: They write tweets that get *retweeted.*
Twitter is, by far, the fastest way to build a high-quality audience.
Why?
It's quicker to write insightful tweets than it is to produce 10min YouTube videos or 1400-word blog posts.
Here's a thread of actionable tactics from studying the fastest-growing Twitter accounts.
1. They spend 30+ minutes per day sourcing and refining 1-3 daily tweets. They don't wing what they say, and they typically sit on each idea for a few days.
2. Key: They write tweets that get *retweeted.*
We polled people to ask why they retweet. They said:
1. "Retweeting is my bookmarking system for ideas."
2. "I retweet when someone's put elegant words to my thoughts."
3. "I want my followers to know I relate to this statement."
1. Tweet referenceable content that people will refer back to later.
2. Challenge the status quo with elegance and wit.
3. Pick a debate and argue your side with a novel take.
The most RTed tweets? *Threads with advice like this.*
• Open with a hook: Make it counterintuitive or counter-narrative.
• Concise body: Satisfy the craving your hook created.
• End with a punchy zinger: Summarize implications of your finding and what it means for the reader.
1. Read other popular tweets and note every time you have a strong reaction to one. Create a Tweet based on that reaction.
2. Summarize novel facts from Wikipedia, YouTube, and Podcasts.
Twitter’s Featured Topics’ algorithm favors tweets with certain keywords.
Inject 1-3 Twitter keywords into your tweet, e.g. sports, investing, or venture capital.
• Express value in your bio: "I write tweets to help startups grow."
• Pin your highest value, most RTed tweet
• Ensure your last 3 tweets are interesting
• Measure profile visit → follow rate (use https://t.co/zX1uaHm5L3)
You need a way to consistently move people to an owned channel, like a newsletter.
2 ways:
1. Slow: Link your newsletter in your bio.
2. Fast: Tweet half a thread. Tell people to subscribe to get the other half.
Use a tool like https://t.co/sI9YO0rKLn to search through your followers’ bios.
Then message people when it's mutually beneficial to exchange ideas.
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This is from the official Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence DOD account on Twitter. Ezra Cohen-Watnick - after being appointed by Trump to chair an influential declassification board - "likes" a tweet that implies he is "Q."
119/7 = 17 & Q = 17
https://t.co/LQShObYZqn
I can’t find the like , or it appears to have been “unliked” but here’s a video of someone who claims it was there just a few hours ago
This comes from the JFK grandchildren video singing “Timber”
@ 0:50 👀
https://t.co/AmjDZ74kCl
Check the domino. Posted to 4ch it has zero returns on tineye
Now check the domino
Posted to 4ch it has zero returns on tineye
119/7 = 17 & Q = 17
https://t.co/LQShObYZqn
119 \u27977 is now the Chairman of the Public Interest Declassification Board. This new information could be of importance to many. I wonder what that could mean for those who have taken actions to obscure potentially damaging information from the public view?
— 337Tomahawk (@absitminded) December 23, 2020
I can’t find the like , or it appears to have been “unliked” but here’s a video of someone who claims it was there just a few hours ago
— Dr. A. non Questry (@DQuestry) December 27, 2020
This comes from the JFK grandchildren video singing “Timber”
@ 0:50 👀
https://t.co/AmjDZ74kCl
Check the domino. Posted to 4ch it has zero returns on tineye
Now check the domino
Posted to 4ch it has zero returns on tineye
Here are some of the best threads I've ever read on Twitter,
All related to
- Startups
- Entrepreneurship
- Indiehacker
- Wealth
- Health
- Life nd philosophy
I'll keep updating them regularly
Read below 👇
1. Getting reach without being luck, best tweet ever by
2. On meditation by
3. On college and eduction by
4. "Deep Year" concept by
All related to
- Startups
- Entrepreneurship
- Indiehacker
- Wealth
- Health
- Life nd philosophy
I'll keep updating them regularly
Read below 👇
1. Getting reach without being luck, best tweet ever by
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):
— Naval (@naval) May 31, 2018
2. On meditation by
Meditation - The Art of Doing Nothing:
— Naval (@naval) May 16, 2020
3. On college and eduction by
I\u2019ve gotten a lot of bad advice in my career and I see even more of it here on Twitter.
— Nick Huber (@sweatystartup) January 3, 2021
Time for a stiff drink and some truth you probably dont want to hear.
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4. "Deep Year" concept by
Obsessed with this idea:
— Jordan O'Connor (@jdnoc) July 28, 2020
Pick a niche I'm interested in.
Write/study daily about the topic.
Write 100 articles in a year.
Get SEO traffic.
Build email list.
Ask them what they want and build it.
Sell products (physical or digital).
Start fresh with a new niche next year.
This is why I'm not a critic of "cancel culture." It's crucial to impose social costs for the breech of key social norms. The lesson of overreaction is that we need to recalibrate judgment to get it right next time, not that we need a lot more bad judgment in the other direction.
Obviously, people will disagree about which norms are important, about how bad it is to violate them, and thus about how severe the social cost ought to be. That's just pluralism, man, and it's good.
It's important to openly talk through these substantive differences, which is why derailing these conversations with hand-waving moral panic about "cancel culture" is obnoxious and illiberal.
Screaming "cancel culture!" when somebody pays a social costs other people have been fighting hard to get others to see as necessary is often just a way to declare, with no argument, that the sanction in question was not only unnecessary but in breach of a more important norm.
It's impossible to uphold social norms without social sanctions, so obviously anti-cancelers are going to want to impose a social cost on people they see as imposing unjustly steep social costs on others.
Every single critic of "cancel culture" just thinks the wrong people are getting canceled. pic.twitter.com/DDIVccj8zV
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) February 2, 2021
Obviously, people will disagree about which norms are important, about how bad it is to violate them, and thus about how severe the social cost ought to be. That's just pluralism, man, and it's good.
It's important to openly talk through these substantive differences, which is why derailing these conversations with hand-waving moral panic about "cancel culture" is obnoxious and illiberal.
Screaming "cancel culture!" when somebody pays a social costs other people have been fighting hard to get others to see as necessary is often just a way to declare, with no argument, that the sanction in question was not only unnecessary but in breach of a more important norm.
It's impossible to uphold social norms without social sanctions, so obviously anti-cancelers are going to want to impose a social cost on people they see as imposing unjustly steep social costs on others.
