1/ Thread: My twitter philosophy
I have been active on fintwit for almost a year and half now. When I decided to get out of my lurking phase, I could never imagine this account could ever become such a huge part in my life.
Let me share my philosophy for building this account.
I have been active on fintwit for almost a year and half now. When I decided to get out of my lurking phase, I could never imagine this account could ever become such a huge part in my life.
Let me share my philosophy for building this account.
2/ I treat fintwit as my workplace. I try not to tweet something that I would not tweet if my followers were my colleagues.
3/ I do not want to get on a content treadmill which many creators seem to suffer from.
I want to create a fair amount of detachment from input and output.
I want to create a fair amount of detachment from input and output.
4/ What are the inputs? It’s the tweets.
Every month, I give myself a quota of ~300 tweets (somewhat arbitrarily chosen). I don’t count tweets every day, but once a month ends, I check my twitter analytics and see how many tweets I posted.
Every month, I give myself a quota of ~300 tweets (somewhat arbitrarily chosen). I don’t count tweets every day, but once a month ends, I check my twitter analytics and see how many tweets I posted.
5/ If it’s more than 400, I want to actively try to decrease my time here.
If it’s fewer than 200, it is an indication that I am not spending enough time reading and thinking about interesting ideas.
If it’s fewer than 200, it is an indication that I am not spending enough time reading and thinking about interesting ideas.
6/ What are the outputs?
It’s the impressions and/or profile visits I receive.
I try not to judge my content based on likes or impressions. If I care too much about these things, it can create some very twisted incentives.
It’s the impressions and/or profile visits I receive.
I try not to judge my content based on likes or impressions. If I care too much about these things, it can create some very twisted incentives.
7/ So far, I haven’t really faced much challenge in the output section.
However, if I ever do, I want to remind myself that I shouldn’t want to "hack" the output, rather focus on improving the quality of input.
However, if I ever do, I want to remind myself that I shouldn’t want to "hack" the output, rather focus on improving the quality of input.
8/ Sometimes, looking at my twitter analytics, I feel like twitter would charge me any day now as this website allows me to get ~3 mn impressions every month! 
9/ I do not want to turbocharge my following.
If you care about such a thing, there is no number high enough for you.
You have 50k? 100k would be cool. Oh now you have 100k? Maybe a Million would be cooler…
And it goes on.
If you care about such a thing, there is no number high enough for you.
You have 50k? 100k would be cool. Oh now you have 100k? Maybe a Million would be cooler…
And it goes on.
10/ I don’t want to increase following by doing things just because those work for other people.
Before following/borrowing things that seem to work here, I want to ask myself whether I would do this even if it stopped working.
Before following/borrowing things that seem to work here, I want to ask myself whether I would do this even if it stopped working.
11/ I love writing threads and I will keep writing even if it goes out of vogue on twitter.
The trick is very simple. There are a lot of things that work on twitter, but if you don’t enjoy being here, it all goes to drain regardless of whether you have 1k or 1M followers.
The trick is very simple. There are a lot of things that work on twitter, but if you don’t enjoy being here, it all goes to drain regardless of whether you have 1k or 1M followers.
12/ The good news is I derive enormous utility by discussing/sharing ideas and writing about them.
When I was in college, my friends used to tease me for being too “serious”. I needed to find fintwit to find an audience for all this seriousness that I’m carrying all my life :)
When I was in college, my friends used to tease me for being too “serious”. I needed to find fintwit to find an audience for all this seriousness that I’m carrying all my life :)
13/ While I enjoy memes and I am eternally grateful that memes exist, I am not good at it and have no interest in making myself good at it.
14/ Lot of misunderstanding on twitter happens for not recognizing different people are on this website for different reasons.
Some are here for a little banter/laughter, some looking to expand their businesses, and some to create a network based on their content.
Some are here for a little banter/laughter, some looking to expand their businesses, and some to create a network based on their content.
15/ Some just enjoy reading/following other interesting people.
None of these reasons is inherently better than the other and many engage in a bit of everything.
Enjoying your time on twitter > the number of your twitter followers.
None of these reasons is inherently better than the other and many engage in a bit of everything.
Enjoying your time on twitter > the number of your twitter followers.
16/ I feel fortunate that so many people follow me which frankly allowed me to launch MBI Deep Dives last September.
July was another good month for mbi-deepdives.com
July was another good month for mbi-deepdives.com
End/ I have no goal in terms of number/metric.
Just keep at it: that is the only goal for both my twitter account, and MBI Deep Dives.
If I just keep at it, I think I will surprise myself with the outcome in the long term.
Just keep at it: that is the only goal for both my twitter account, and MBI Deep Dives.
If I just keep at it, I think I will surprise myself with the outcome in the long term.
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