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
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
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
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 (@JackRandalll) 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
Growing up or working in SF/NYC, going to Stanford etc gives an unbeatable edge.
— Sar Haribhakti (@sarthakgh) August 29, 2018
But, Twitter is a superpower for building a network & a name for yourself.
Someone like me who grew up in India & went to school in upstate NY has access to the brightest minds. https://t.co/P9aw8K4q30
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!