So tl;dr how does the Twitter game work and how to grow it? Let's brainstorm
I jumped on the Twitter thing recently, just for fun mostly, but it might be a good skill set to develop for any future ventures. Been also scratching my head on how "the game" of Twitter works. Anybody who's used it knows it's a hilarious unwieldy confusing platform in a way. Tweets and retweets and hidden tweets and conversation topics and replies and shoutouts all get mixed up into some weird uncomprehensible stew. The platform is shit, but it allows for topics to quickly become widely spread and gives even the simple civilian person a platform to spread their views if they play the game correctly.
Types
Now as far as I see it, there are 2 types of twitter accounts: a promotional platform if you have some kind of product/business which you're trying to push or a personal speaking platform for the average civilian person that doesn't have a product per se. There can also be a mix of both forms.
Examples for the former type would be: Roosh, any company, a journalist, someone with a blog, YouTubers, One-Trick-Pony accounts that repost like pictures of cats, landscapes, hot girls etc. They seem to be the most conductive to grow a following organically and expand their reach, but also more restrictive. There's a feedback loop that helps those accounts to grow. Roosh has his e-books. People buy the books, become fans of the account. Other see the fans, stumble unto the account, buy books, become fans etc. the following grows partly by itself. But then again, for such accounts you have to curate your views and what you post because you have to think about your business to not scare away potential customers.
The personal accounts of average people can just post whatever. They can post a wide range of topics and retweets because they have no product to worry about, or focus on a narrow range like: Trump exclusive news, Islamization, GameGate, trolly memes, pro-[theirCountry] topics, just random weird twitter memes etc. But then the central problem arises: how would people find them? WHY would people follow them? They're not famous for anything or for any product, how can they become known? More reach means more people are able to stumble on them and thus their tweets increase in importance.
So here, let's just brainstorm the strategies for the second type of account to grow, maybe some guys also have some tips and tricks since I'm also new to this Twitter stuff
I jumped on the Twitter thing recently, just for fun mostly, but it might be a good skill set to develop for any future ventures. Been also scratching my head on how "the game" of Twitter works. Anybody who's used it knows it's a hilarious unwieldy confusing platform in a way. Tweets and retweets and hidden tweets and conversation topics and replies and shoutouts all get mixed up into some weird uncomprehensible stew. The platform is shit, but it allows for topics to quickly become widely spread and gives even the simple civilian person a platform to spread their views if they play the game correctly.
Types
Now as far as I see it, there are 2 types of twitter accounts: a promotional platform if you have some kind of product/business which you're trying to push or a personal speaking platform for the average civilian person that doesn't have a product per se. There can also be a mix of both forms.
Examples for the former type would be: Roosh, any company, a journalist, someone with a blog, YouTubers, One-Trick-Pony accounts that repost like pictures of cats, landscapes, hot girls etc. They seem to be the most conductive to grow a following organically and expand their reach, but also more restrictive. There's a feedback loop that helps those accounts to grow. Roosh has his e-books. People buy the books, become fans of the account. Other see the fans, stumble unto the account, buy books, become fans etc. the following grows partly by itself. But then again, for such accounts you have to curate your views and what you post because you have to think about your business to not scare away potential customers.
The personal accounts of average people can just post whatever. They can post a wide range of topics and retweets because they have no product to worry about, or focus on a narrow range like: Trump exclusive news, Islamization, GameGate, trolly memes, pro-[theirCountry] topics, just random weird twitter memes etc. But then the central problem arises: how would people find them? WHY would people follow them? They're not famous for anything or for any product, how can they become known? More reach means more people are able to stumble on them and thus their tweets increase in importance.
So here, let's just brainstorm the strategies for the second type of account to grow, maybe some guys also have some tips and tricks since I'm also new to this Twitter stuff