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I just made a mediocre tweet and got attention from some 60k follower big time newsday journalist that doesn't even follow me https://t.co/XIfhKwA8JR
and @ThatsMauvelous got retweeted by Taylor Swift I think??? There's some weird weird attention flattening that goes on on twitter and it's mostly ignored. I'm followed by a few people that have outsized importance given that I just, like, my claim to fame is I interview *you*
@ThatsMauvelous The strangest thing is that this happens all the time. I only realize I'm followed by a 300k twitter account after I check twitter analytics Numbers, numbers. That's all boring, sure. But in a 'world of clout' where the 10s mmaires sit at different tables than 1 mmaires...
It's just really fucking strange that people can get attention so easily And then on the other side of the barbell I can tweet the grandest most beautiful clip of the most beautiful poem and get zero attention Once you realize that, you're in fuck land
If it seems like I'm going anywhere with this tweet that's probably only due to my ability to write with urgency and drive because I don't know what any of this means is it useful? i don't know, I'm n ot david perell or james clear that can take this idea and write a naval blog
@BecomingCritter > no one ever talks about yo this is like one of my core fascinations lol we could do a whole second podcast ep about this I do what I do because I believe the possibility space here continues to be grotesquely underappreciated, undervalued
@BecomingCritter and yet https://t.co/okn9XEZTH5