Why (and How) You Should Join Twitter Right Now
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How to start using Twitter
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Check out the 20 people I like the most tweets from and follow the ones you like the most.
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Read Lama Al Rajih’s Twitter guide
Rules for making twitter a wholesome experience
Mute people you don’t want to see on your feed. It’s that simple. It will take a week or two when you start but now my feed, for example, has ~0 politics and engagement bait.
Cool people praising twitter
https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/719606290696269824
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/948392001279549440
https://twitter.com/lpolovets/status/973582383080341505
https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/975884635535101952
https://twitter.com/JackRandalll/status/1009869395039064064
https://twitter.com/lpolovets/status/1016836552016695296
https://twitter.com/sarthakgh/status/1034816261824307200
My experience with twitter
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I met more people with similar to mine interests on twitter than I had in my entire life.
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I went on a 2 week trip to China with a dude whom I met on twitter
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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.”
On unfollowing people
There’s no good reason to unfollow someone on Twitter who you know in real life – instead of just “muting” them – unless you care a lot about your following/followers ratio. Which you shouldn’t.
The interpersonal damage of friend noticing you’ve unfollowed them isn’t worth it!