Day 347 - Completed https://golifelog.com/posts/completed-tweet100-1639363506381
Some things I learned from doing #tweet100:
• Even when you think you’re doing good enough, you can dig deeper and do even better. Putting my craftsman pride into crafting tweets felt enriching and enjoyable.
• Timebox challenges like the 100 days series are often used to build consistency, but you can also build quality.
• Constraints can be fun - I enjoyed learning about the art of tweeting - how you can structure it, trigger emotions. engage with it, while working within the 280-character limits.
• I learned a lot about how to play the Twitter game – when and why use single tweets (which was my main approach), threads, RTs, QTs, replies, likes. There’s a lot more to these seemingly unassuming features than how 90% of users will use it. E.g. you want to QT than RT, because a QT is shareable, can be replied to, liked, and essentially bring more engagement (and thus favoured by the algorithm) than a regular RT.
• Twitter communities really take a lot of work to build a sense of belonging, on the part of the creator and to participate on the part of the member. I didn’t engage much with the #tweet100 community. Was there even one? Apparently, but it felt quite diffused throughout Twitter. Contrast with the #ship30for30 community, which was vibrant and energetic. Pretty eye-opening to observe the differences.
• Hashtags are falling out of popularity on Twitter. Nobody really uses them anymore - would communities built around hashtags have staying power in the future?
• Even when you think you’re doing good enough, you can dig deeper and do even better. Putting my craftsman pride into crafting tweets felt enriching and enjoyable.
• Timebox challenges like the 100 days series are often used to build consistency, but you can also build quality.
• Constraints can be fun - I enjoyed learning about the art of tweeting - how you can structure it, trigger emotions. engage with it, while working within the 280-character limits.
• I learned a lot about how to play the Twitter game – when and why use single tweets (which was my main approach), threads, RTs, QTs, replies, likes. There’s a lot more to these seemingly unassuming features than how 90% of users will use it. E.g. you want to QT than RT, because a QT is shareable, can be replied to, liked, and essentially bring more engagement (and thus favoured by the algorithm) than a regular RT.
• Twitter communities really take a lot of work to build a sense of belonging, on the part of the creator and to participate on the part of the member. I didn’t engage much with the #tweet100 community. Was there even one? Apparently, but it felt quite diffused throughout Twitter. Contrast with the #ship30for30 community, which was vibrant and energetic. Pretty eye-opening to observe the differences.
• Hashtags are falling out of popularity on Twitter. Nobody really uses them anymore - would communities built around hashtags have staying power in the future?