What I found through some simple searching was the very good advice to be "interesting" and that the more tweets the better. Oh, and you can pay twitter to promote you at a cost of about $40/month. Ummmm... yeah, thanks, but no thanks.
So no real advice or any real help.
It turns out that apparently I joined Twitter in 2014 (at least that's what is says). I don't really recall joining back then, my entire tweet collection was a single retweet from Scott Adams prior to the 2016 election (which I vaguely remember doing as a test), and I had made a couple of replies to other tweets that I likely opened from a blog that featured a twitter post...
As of this last Friday... I had one follower.
Who of course was following nothing.
So knowing my tweet feed would travel out to the world in the form of one person (whom I know personally to be a crazed liberal) my idea was to simply "comment" on some tweets from major twitter accounts, that provided a strong chance of sticking around with retweets, etc...
I commented/replied this Saturday on a tweet started by Ocasio-Cortez on emissions (how exciting) and I got this as a response.
14,716 impressions, 306 likes, 45 retweets, 16 expands, 9 replies, 8 profile clicks (probably should had more content - didn't think that through), 2 hashtag clicks....
all from a reply?
Oh and a grand hopping total of one new follower??
Now I had two! Boy oh boy, uncork the champagne!
So this became my deal. I went around replying on other tweets, while trying to put up some interesting stuff on my feed in case people actually dropped in to see what I was about. I found that replying directly to "retweets" from people who are not actually famous and might follow me back seems to create less total "activity" but provides a better chance of garnering followers (still waiting for Ocasio-Cortez to follow me - and I will probably have to wait a while longer).
Anyways, now I have garnered some followers. Perhaps someday I can be as cool as Roger and approach 1600 followers, who btw, still manages to successfully project in 280 characters or less, and of course is like a pig in slop with the retweet option.
But it looks as though you have to fairly famous (or just spend all your time soliciting new followers) to really get a "large" following. Looking at past and present bloggers, Sean Trende has just under 42K, Sister Toldjah has 33.6K, Stephen Green (the Vodka Pundit) checks in at a little over 30K, John Hinderacker (Powerline) has 12.4K, Gerry Dales (from Daly Thoughts and Red State) has just under 2000 followers, while Thomas Lifson (American Thinker) has 148.
Not sure if I can really push off blogging for 280 character sound bites, but I can see a place for both. Gather some twitter followers and promote a blogpost or two. So if you are on Twitter, go ahead and follow me if you so choose:
I'll try not to be too boring!
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Harris said, “This term identity politics, people will use that term— it’s like people used to talk about the race card. They bring this term up when you talk about issues that are about race, about sexual orientation, religion. They bring it up when we are talking about civil rights issues as a way to marginalize the issue, as a way frankly to try to silence you or shut you up.”
Awe looking, she standing for a change.
Shut u up?, nope
((Hand her and here socialist ilk a bigger megaphone, like AlSharoon size))
Seems to me there are lot people a whole lot smarter than anyone here publishing a memo saying trump and his emergency are BOGUS!!!!!
By Ellen Nakashima February 24 at 7:00 PM
A bipartisan group of 58 former senior national security officials will issue a statement Monday saying that “there is no factual basis” for President Trump’s proclamation of a national emergency to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The joint statement, whose signatories include former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former defense secretary Chuck Hagel, will come a day before the House is expected to vote on a resolution to block Trump’s Feb. 15 declaration.
[Trump declares national emergency on southern border in bid to build wall]
The former officials’ statement, which will be entered into the Congressional Record, is intended to support lawsuits and other actions challenging the national emergency proclamation and to force the administration to set forth the legal and factual basis for it.
“Under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitles the president to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border,” the group said.
Albright served under President Bill Clinton, and Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska, served under President Barack Obama.
Lawmakers argue over Trump’s national emergency declaration
Republican Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said he supported President Trump’s national emergency declaration to build the wall Feb. 17. (Reuters)
Also signing were Eliot A. Cohen, State Department counselor under President George W. Bush; Thomas R. Pickering, President George H.W. Bush’s ambassador to the United Nations; John F. Kerry, Obama’s second secretary of state; Susan E. Rice, Obama’s national security adviser; Leon E. Panetta, Obama’s CIA director and defense secretary; as well as former intelligence and security officials who served under Republican and Democratic administrations.
Trump’s national emergency declaration followed a 35-day partial government shutdown, which came after Congress did not approve the $5.7 billion he sought to build a wall.
In announcing his declaration, Trump predicted lawsuits and “possibly . . . a bad ruling, and then we’ll get another bad ruling” before winning at the Supreme Court.
The former security officials’ 11-page declaration, a copy of which was shared with The Washington Post, sets out their argument disputing the factual basis for the president’s emergency.
A bipartisan group of 58 former senior national security officials will issue a statement Monday saying that “there is no factual basis” for President Trump’s proclamation of a national emergency to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The same group that tried to overthrow a duly elected president? What a surprise!!
The same group that tried to overthrow a duly elected president?
Did you actually read the names...???? Seems to me you have trouble with the written word, typical of low intellect trump slurpers....sure looks like your post is once again Full of Shit!!!!!
Hi Denise. You saw that i respect you.
Do you feel better?
I Read the names, so what.
The correct take on the issue.
"The same group that tried to overthrow a duly elected president? " CS
Omg, ; John Kerry , is one of them.
He believes the US is the Problem in the world.
Check out Roger Amick (@rlamick): https://twitter.com/rlamick?s=09
1,668 followers
So my twitter timeline can be polluted with your spam?
No thanks?
The same group that tried to overthrow a duly elected president? What a surprise!!
Nixon said the same thing.
Nixon was in his second term.
These guys did even wait until the ink was dried on Trump's certifications of election from the various states electors.
The correct take on the issue.
"The same group that tried to overthrow a duly elected president? " CS
Dumb and fucking dumbest can't read.....that group had nothing to do with anything trump......assholes!!!
Blogger KD said...
Hi Denise. You saw that i respect you.
I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, goat fucking idiot....
There was even a thing called "evidence" against Nixon.
Not just something Schiff has just "claimed" to exist but never produced.
Or political dislike.
Good luck with the Twitter
Roger
Your Twitter account says you are "newly single" and your pinned tweet about your wife is gone. Hmmmm...
I am sure that will be good for some fodder here?
good luck with the twitter thing, scott.
i have two bits of advice -
1) don't ever tweet to a laid off journalist "learn to code."
that make jack angry that you pick on his favorite snowflakes and he suspend you.
2) don't ever post your bank account number and routing number on your twitter feed like the alky did on his. now, you are probably thinking - "just how fucking stupid does a person have to be to do such a thing?"
well, we're talking about the alky here, a man so fucking stupid he drank a perfectly good liver to death and needed a spare.
so yeah, don't post your bank info unless you want some liberal to steal your identity and clean you out.
Blogger Commonsense said...
Nixon was in his second term.
had nixon been a democrat and broken into RNC HQ he would have been heralded as a great president and democrats would've carved his ugly mug into mount rushmore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03wtPVUQxUo
Always wondered what happened to this little project I worked on.....Burt Rutan and his brilliant mind developed the airframe and built the components.....i worked the sensor and mission package......
Rat
The other day Gerry Dales tweeted
"Everyone should learn to code"
I wonder if he will get banned!
Your Twitter account says you are "newly single" and your pinned tweet about your wife is gone. Hmmmm...
mail order flew the coop, eh?
that explains a lot.
rrb said...
so yeah, don't post your bank info unless you want some liberal to steal your identity and clean you out.
It would be a lot easier to just vote liberal to accomplish that
doubtful on the gerry dale's tweet. it needs to be targeted at one of the 2000 buzzfeed/mcclatchy/huffpost/et.al. geniuses who existed solely to churn out clickbait like -
17 reasons that eating your own boogers is the key to good digestive health!
Verified account
@RealSaavedra
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on the widespread criticism of her Green New Deal: "I’m like, you try. ... Until you do it, I’m the boss! How about that?!"
Dana Loesch Retweeted Ryan Saavedra
Not surprised someone who proposed “getting rid of cows” in writing confuses “representative” and “boss.
Such a thin skinned big mouthed asshole, !!!!!
President Trump on Monday lashed out at Spike Lee after the director urged viewers to vote him out of office during Sunday night’s Academy Awards.
Trump tweeted that it would “be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!”
Lee, who had been nominated five previous times, took the stage to accept the Oscar, his first-ever, for best adapted screenplay for “BlacKkKlansman” with several pages of prepared remarks. He honored Black History Month and thanked his grandmother — who he said saved up 50 years of Social Security checks to help put him through film school — before turning to politics and the upcoming presidential election.
“The 2020 presidential election is around the corner,” Lee said. “Let’s all mobilize, let’s all be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love versus hate. Let’s do the right thing!”
@paulsperry_
Trump is being held to different "obstruction" standard than Clinton when both Clintons went after both Starr & FBI Director Louis Freeh hammer & tong while constantly criticizing their investigations. I personally had a 15-min interview w Clinton in 1999 in which he bashed Freeh
Stonewall Jackson Retweeted the [CRISP] Report
The left used to have a monopoly on the media and how people received their news/information. Then Rush came around in 1988, then FOX in 96' which took away some of their brainwashing power. Now with Social Media there's millions of "Rush's" and their power has diminished greatly
ConservativeOne
@4Conservatives
Replying to @vajazzercise @steph93065 @AOC
Why do Liberals have to wait for a Bill to be passed? Why don’t you just start living like you preach? Stop flying, turn in your car and do without electricity. You’re so good at lecturing everyone else, but You folks can’t run a lemonade stand, let alone the Country.
democrat and broken into RNC HQ he would have been heralded as a great president and democrats would've carved his ugly mug into mount rushmore.
Hey cramps...that is the funniest thing you have ever proffered....LOLOLOL
@paulsperry_
"Look who's here," McCabe recounts whispering to Rosenstein in Gang of 8 briefing upon seeing Nunes walk into the SCIF. "Rosenstein understood. He went to talk to Nunes, pulled him aside. Came back, told me, 'Nunes is staying, refuses to leave. We can't kick him out of the room'"
Twitter is great for exposing things you just don't get from the MSM.... like the deep state in action.
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: For reparations, Democrat presidential hopeful Bill De Blasio proposes ceding the legalized pot industry to blacks, comparing it to giving Indians casinos & implying blacks would want that industry b/c they understand getting high. How insulting. How is that not racist?
and insights....
Twitter is great for exposing things you just don't get from the MSM.
Sure show how gullible idiots like you can be....especially deep!!!!
What happen Roger?
"Roger
Your Twitter account says you are "newly single" and your pinned tweet about your wife is gone. Hmmmm...
I am sure that will be good for some fodder here?" CHT
Twitter does upset those who like to be told how to think.
and are "Unknowing"
ROFLMFAO !!!
also,
you'll know you've had an impact with a tweet if it gets picked up by twitchy. and that cuts both ways.
Please get her on Twitter, Facebook, snap chat and every other media form there is, we need more of Ozone Cortez .
"The whole premise of the Green New Deal is that we’re screwed on climate,” she said. “At this point, we don’t even have to prove it — just walk outside in winter in a lot of places, and it’s either way worse than you’re used to, or way warmer than you’re used to.”
Right it is both. Lol.
The funny thing is that liberals think we're afraid of her.
So afraid we'll make sure we show up in 2020 to vote against her party.
Afraid of her. He'll I love her as I do Joe Biden and Rape fantasy Burnie Sanders.
They are the Best of the Socialist Democrats .
The Independent US
A former campaign staffer who worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign has sued the president, alleging he kissed her without consent.
Alva Johnson said she turned her head as he went in for a kiss outside of a rally in Tampa, Florida in August 2016, causing the future-president to place his lips on the side of her mouth.
“I immediately felt violated because I wasn’t expecting it or wanting it,” she told the Washington Post. “I can still see his lips coming straight for my face.”
We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view.
The allegations are the most recent claims of sexual harassment levelled against the president, after scores of women came forward during the 2016 election with credible claims of assault by Mr Trump. Ms Johnson’s suit is the first to accuse the president of sexual misconduct along the campaign trail,
Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!
Transgender sprinters finish 1st, 2nd at Connecticut girls indoor track championships
Alva Johnson
i have only two questions on this particular topic -
who put her up to it, and how big of a check is trump's secretary going to have to write to make this old skank go away, IF ANY?
she had best have her shit together. when skanky daniels pulled this shit it backfired and she ended up OWING trump almost 300 large.
That's pretty damn Mickey Mouse. Even for Roger.
What happen Roger?
"Roger
Your Twitter account says you are "newly single" and your pinned tweet about your wife is gone. Hmmmm...
I am sure that will be good for some fodder here?" CHT
Alva Johnson, a black woman, kissed by Trump a Known racist?
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