34 Tips on Crushing Twitter

Creating a blog post because my tweets are on rolling 60 day autodelete. This post is taken from a previous tweet storm titled, “34 Tips on Crushing Twitter” It was inspired by a webinar hosted by David Perell.

What is Twitter?

• Twitter is a network to connect people with ideas

• Twitter is a school that helps teach people

• Twitter is a coffee shop where intellectuals talk about cutting edge ideas 

• Twitter is a conference where you choose the speakers, topics, and time to attend

• Twitter is the most important newspaper in the world

• Twitter is a global town square 

Twitter is a Barstool

• Build an intellectual journal that traces your thinking over time. Share your best ideas.

• Twitter is a place to make friends

• Twitter is a place to build a high-quality feed with more knowledge and less noise 

Writing Tweets

• People respond to metaphors

• How to present an idea is more important than the idea itself

• Make an idea visual in someway 

Power of Twitter

• Twitter can make you a billion dollars

• Twitter rewards people who are different

• Most of David's closest friends he met on Twitter

Power of Twitter DM

• People such as @mrsharma, @dollarsanddata, and @_TamaraWinter he met through Twitter DM

• DM's are like dark matter. Interesting things happen that you don't see in public.

• People are making multi-million dollars deals on Twitter 

Staying Focused

• The paradox of specificity - the more you focus, the more opportunities you get

• Focus on a passion that people aren't talking about

• David wrote about the future of media and ended up getting his first job through Twitter 

Learning in Public

"Twitter is the most amazing networking and learning network ever built. If you aren't on Twitter you are missing out."

- Bill Gurley

Using Twitter to Test Ideas

• In 2019, David announced on Twitter that he wanted to teach 1,000 people how to write

• Hundreds of people reached out and he started a course called Write of Passage

• Use Twitter to tease an idea over time

Finding People to Follow

• Don't use Twitter's recommendations

• Look through someone that you follows likes to see who are good people to follow

• Find people who are really good at a specific topic such as @trengriffin or @foundmyfitness 

Using Different Tools

• There are a lot of ways to skin a cat

• There isn't one specific way to use Twitter

• Focus on sharing unique ideas