Why You Should Join Twitter Right Now
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Follow the scientists / celebrities / other people you want to keep up with
Check out my list of high signal / noise people. Follow the ones you like the most. Follow the accounts Twitter says are similar to those that you like the most.
Cool people praising twitter
Really grateful for Twitter. Seeing the tweets flow by feels like access to some great super-genius for the ages. (Quite serious.)
— michael_nielsen (@michael_nielsen) April 11, 2016
Unlike apparently so many people, I find twitter inspiring! So many smart people and interesting things — a little pruning required now and then, but it is more a problem of limiting the amount of quality versus finding it.
— John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) January 3, 2018
We do a lot of complaining about Twitter, but if I think about how much value products have added to my life Twitter wins by about 1000x
— Austen Allred (@AustenAllred) March 12, 2018
Twitter is a great playground for practicing life skills: offering constructive criticism tactfully, listening politely to opinions you don't share, empathizing with your audience, etc. So many opportunities every time you check your feed.
— Leo Polovets (@lpolovets) March 13, 2018
Product Hunt wouldn’t have started without Twitter
— Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover) March 17, 2018
Twitter has made a huge positive impact on my life. Lots of people complain about it, so I wanted to write some notes about how I use it.
— michael_nielsen (@michael_nielsen) March 20, 2018
Love to hear others' strategies too.
4️⃣ years ago, I dropped out of college & joined a 13-person startup w/$3M seed, promising to “democratize the stock market.”
— Jack Randall (@TheJGR) June 21, 2018
In college, I remember setting my alarm at 6am for earnings & getting ripped off by ETrade, so when I read about Robinhood’s mission, I sent this DM.. pic.twitter.com/hBP8VHtfMp
Twitter. Introduced me to my wife, some of my best friends, my mentors, my best hires and colleagues, and through it I learn from people I only could have dreamt of prior to its existence. https://t.co/DnjXTv4I3R
— Musa Tariq (@MusaTariq) July 11, 2018
All 4 of my mtgs this afternoon:
— Leo Polovets (@lpolovets) August 10, 2018
- domain expert that I met via Twitter
- fellow VC that I've been getting to know via Twitter
- aspiring VC, intro'ed to me by a Twitter friend (Aside: haven't met that friend IRL yet!)
- @patio11 (I'm a longtime fan)
This is an amazing platform.
Twitter gets a bad rap often, but honestly I think way it makes it easy to find similar-minded people, who I feel comfortable sharing silly memes with, talking about controversial issues, or who have similar nerdy interests, is probably unparalleled.
— Saloni 🎃👻 (@salonium) August 19, 2018
This place is really great.
My experience with twitter
I met more people with similar to mine interests on twitter than I had in my entire life.
I went on a 2 week trip to China with a dude whom I met on twitter
I get most of my project ideas / exposure to research from twitter
More people praising twitter
A LinkedIn message, an email, and a tweet: a guy got a job by twitter
How Twitter made me a better scientist
Is surfing the internet dead?, Tyler Cowen: “these days you find most things by Twitter.”