So I sat down to write a post about how I've started only replying and retweeting on Twitter. It fel
So I sat down to write a post about how I've started only replying and retweeting on Twitter. It felt like it might be funny in my head. Is was about how I was "Reply Guy Only" now, but you know what? Thinking about Twitter just made me feel dead inside.
Twitter is a game and I have lost.
I think this is something more and more people are going to find in the coming years. You use it because you want to get some level of attention for whatever it is you have to say.
You need to either need to:
- Be attractive
- Be very funny
- Be famous independent of Twitter
- Interact with lots of people you know in real life
- If you're so-so on a couple of these they combine nicely, like a semi-funny, semi-attractive person can do well or a bunch of semi-famous people who interact a lot as friends can attract a lot of engagement
I have to stay on there because it's a big way to know what's going on in the world I write about, but energy put into it is just wasted energy.
I'm not going to blame anyone for this but myself. I tried to play it and I lost. I invested a lot into Twitter so it sort of feels like a breakup to walk away from it.