Thread by @mwfogleman

Tweetstorms or threaded tweets have become a popular way to share and distribute ideas both with and beyond the character constraints (formerly 140, now 280). ✍️

As Tiago Forte @fortelabs has pointed out, you can "dial down the scope" of writing by writing a tweetstorm, receiving feedback, and then adapting into a blog post, or some other, larger deliverable. 🎛️

Tweetstorms occupy a space and size between a tweet and a blog post.

However, tweetstorms are public. You might not be ready to share your thoughts with a public audience. 😳

Increasingly, I’m thinking of tweetstorms as deliverables in themselves, which require polish. ✨

Ideas are valuable and others need + deserve to hear your ideas loud + clear. 📢 🙌

Here's one solution. The Slack community I started has a "slackstorms" channel. Slackstorms are like tweetstorms, but less public. @SlackHQ is a surprisingly useful tool for drafting tweetstorms.

By "storming" on Slack communities you get a few benefits:
- a private, supportive audience to give you early feedback - feedback that can be even more detailed and thorough than on Twitter

- emoji reactions, which can be more detailed + useful than a binary "heart" or "like".

for example:
💯, ⭐, ❓, ❗, ➕, ✔️,💃

- an additional stage of drafting, which results in a better final deliverable, whether it's a tweetstorm, blog post, or book

To create a Slackstorm:
1) Create or use a Slackstorms channel on your friendly neighborhood Slack community. (I know a good one... mindbodyattention.com/#MBA%20Slack)
2) Draft your storm using a writing tool. (You don't need to check for character limits yet.)

3) Post the first "tweet" as a message in the channel.
4) Thread all responses using a Slack thread in response to that first message.
5) Wait a few days, waiting for replies and responses from the community.

6) Edit your slackstorm, incorporating the feedback, and making sure each part is within Twitter's character limits.
7) Migrate your storm to Twitter, adding emoji, images, mentions, hashtags, and other niceties of Twitter. 🤷‍♂️

As @kgholmen has said: slackstorms are the workshop, and tweetstorms are the gallery. Taking the time to draft + edit your storms before you share them will result in better final products that circulate more widely and get better, higher quality feedback.

If you enjoyed this slackstorm, you might enjoy my online course, Hostwriting, has a whole section devoted to Storming (with more ideas), as well as many other ideas that will help you 📈 your writing skills + output (and have more fun doing it!).

hostwriting.teachable.com/p/introduction

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