Thread by @rickhanlonii

10x shitposters

Followers if you ever come across this rare breed of tweeter, follow them. If you have a 10x shitposter as part of your first few follows, you increase the odds of your twitter success significantly

OK here is a tough question

How do you spot a 10x shitposter?

1. 10x shitposters hate thoughtleading. They think it is a waste of time and obvious things are being discussed. They attend threads because the thoughtleader has called for a "unpopular opinion meeting" to discuss the features and status.

2. Timings on this app for 10x shitposters is highly regular. They tend to tweet all day every day. Send help. If there is a trend or ratio'd thread, they are subtweeting it. Most of them are late-night tweeters and come late to the office.

3. 10x shitposters laptop screen background color is typically black (they always change defaults). Their keyboard keys such as i, f, x are usually worn out than of a, s, and e (email senders).

4. 10x shitposters know every line of the memes that has gone into the feed. If a trend or mention alerts a new meme, they know precisely where the lmfao (or oh no) is and can reply in hours vs days

5. Most of the 10x shitposters are full-stack memers. For them meme is meme, they don't care whether it is drake, ascii bunny, summoning circle, cosmic mind, in this house, etc. I have rarely seen them doing actual work.

6. 10x shitposters can convert "topic" into "meme" in their mind and write it in an iterative fashion. Given a topic trend, they can write tweets nonstop for one or two sittings of 4 to 6 hours with a caffeinated drink without distraction.

7. 10x shitposters rarely look at knowyourmeme for inspo or sth. They know it in memory and can recall from memory. They post garbage at the same ease as writing English. No breaks, no pauce, just type.

8. 10x shitposters are always learning new frameworks, languages ahead of everyone else. They are not afraid of anything new. If there is something new (e.g. blockchain) they mock it, parody it, quote tweet it before anyone is getting started.

9. 10x shitposters are poor mentors as they can't teach others on what to do OR make original content. They always think "It takes too long to be original or think for myself, I would rather retweet someone else." They are also poor thoughtleaders.

10. 10x shitposters don't hack things. They write trash code and have no idea how the code has to evolve, and are completely missing any mental model of overall code structure. They write at most one PR a week, and the rest is posting on twitter.

11. 10x shitposters rarely unfollow or softblock out of your timeline. They disappear from your thread because of their miserable content, satire, memes, and other non-value-added activities. If you are blocked by them, you're blessed by them. Celebrate them.

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