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Dusko Bajic's avatar

Not sure if it's a thread fatigue, but what I noticed lately is that I value diversity on social networks as well. For example, some people tweet about "how to write tech blog posts, all the time. I mean, one can't have tweet of same quality on the same topic, every day.

Then I noticed the repetitive tweets, then "here is 3 things, 5 things you should know about" etc.

A couple of months ago this was ok to me, because I tried to do the same, but all I did is to attract like minded followers, which led to building a balloon around myself. I haven't fixed it, I just stopped engaging that much for a while.

On top of that "For you" happened and it draws a lot of attention.

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You're good Akos :) , your content is ok really, and tbh, I see less of your tweets lately. Not sure if it's the algo thing or something. I'm just describing my subjective observations.

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Akos Komuves's avatar

I see attracting like-minded followers and building a balloon around yourself as the point of Twitter. My Twitter balloon is built around writing and audience building. When I tune in to Twitter, I know what to expect.

This can be very efficient. I can engage with almost everything I see, and the content I engage with will likely be seen by people with the same bubbles - so they might be interested in what I have to say.

Despite the "Twitter is a free university" mantra, I rarely use Twitter to learn something fundamentally new. I use it to see how I can put things differently and later turn that into tweets.

My primary inspiration is books, newsletters, and, recently, Medium blogs, and comments like yours (you just gave me an idea to write about bubbles).

Thank you for reading my newsletter, Dusko. :)

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