Thread by @Trinhnomics

Light Asian econ data wk & given that Xi & Trump won't meet for another month, let's take a breather from trade-war. Goal of @Trinhnomics is to share ideas.

Thread👇🏻on how to 📈presence on Twitter land. Been compounding at 15.6% per month, meaning grew from 1k May'18 👉🏻11.5k😎

1) Be focused on wut u want to be known for. Joined Twitter just to consume info just like most people & decided in 2016 to produce

After trials & errors, advice is PICK A TOPIC & DON'T DEVIATE. Mine is econ & finance & since it's my job & I love it, plenty of content to share🤗

2) After picking topic/area/people u want to network/be known for, the 2nd is ur objective on Twitter. Do you want to just have a lot of Twitter followers or do u actually want to influence? If former, u can pay for it via PR firms so no need to try so hard. Latter, need to work.

3) Made a decision want sticky followers, as in want my followers to like my ideas rather than who I am (job title, firm, education, nationality, usual stuff) & so I decided to NOT PROMOTE it on any platform & see if I can organically grow it via just ideas alone. Tough going 1st

4) If u don't promote urself, it's like a tree falling in the forest & if no one hears ur great ideas, then u know, it didn't exist. So here's wut u do if u have ZERO FOLLOWER.

U need to follow people in ur field of interest that u want to be known for & RESPOND to their Tweets.

5) Meaning, u have to say something clever/add value, the very thing u want to be known for to gain visibility. People w/ lots of followers follow the "influencer" for ideas so u'll find like minded people there. Had basically below 50 followers most of '16. But I kept going🤗🐢.

6) My most precious followers were the 1st 100, if not 50. Don't stop there. Like analyst, u have to evaluate ur hit ratio, good/bad, etc.

Let me save u the trouble. DO NOT BE MEAN ON TWITTER. Be nice. Say something smart. Witty & DO NOT SPAM UR PRECIOUS FOLLOWERS.

Visuals help

7) What did I do badly? 1 of my pet projects is plastic pollution. I hate it. So I basically tweeted a lot about it. But my followers only want to see ECONOMICS 🙄 so EPIC FAIL.

Also retweeting NEWS SUCKED. They follow me for take on econ not retweeting of news & so add my take

8) So don't just retweet news w/o adding ur flavor b/c any smart people would read the news on their own (I read all news religiously & they'd follow the WSJ/Reuters if they just want news);

Reputation matters. Do not respond to negative comments. Do not veer from ur path ever.

9) What is a good Tweet? Well, attention is a very precious commodity so u have to ask, does ur opinion merit people's attention? Does ur ephemeral feeling merit a Tweet? So before u press Tweet, edit urself.

Add visuals. Charts, etc. Make info fun & digestible & u! U're great!

10) Just like economic forecasting, treat my Twitter account w/ utmost care. Look at the analytics all the time. Sometimes I keep Tweets that are very unloved b/c believe it reflects my view but also alter tweets based on feedback.

👇🏻is my benchmark & I try to reach/exceed.

10) In short, 🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🏻 for following. Hope useful for those trying to grow their account. Maybe u're just a trader/investment manager here for "alpha" (😉- I know who u are) but if u decide to be visible 1 day, hope the tips help & save u some growing pain.

Sincerely,

@Trinhnomics