Shouting into the wind.
If a Twitter account has a million or more followers it is probably because its owner is some celebrity level persona who get followers merely be existing.
These people started out well known and famous and the followers materialize as soon as the account went live.
It is important to understand that there is little similarity among the demographic other than their propensity for following celebrity accounts.
The content of the tweets are basic and convey little more than a visual sound bite like “today I sneezed” and 34,565 people will LIKE it, 4,764 people will RT it and 6,351 will comment on it. In part the allure is being the first person in one’s small circle to be the one to mention it.
The connectivity dynamics of Twitter is if I Like your tweet, I get your attention. If you Like mine, you get my attention. Mostly it stops there. If either of us comments on the others tweet, there is a limited spread of our identities across the platform.
The real influence is when a RT takes place.
You and I are operating in the same mini-twitterverse. Let’s say I have 193 followers and you have 53k. If you grew that following organically, as opposed to buying 52k random handles, then there is a high probability that your list contains most if not all of the ones in my following. It’s just statistics. We have been marketing ourselves in the same neighborhood. It is only natural there would be a significant overlap.
What this means is my RT of your content generates negligible exposure for you. On the other hand when you with 53k organic followers RT my content, I can get a huge bump in my exposure. Unfortunately, if your followers don’t re-engage with my content shown to them by your RT then I get next to nothing. This is why purchased random accounts only make an account “look good” but do not perform.
When looking at who one should follow and engage with it is important to attempt to weed out the bots which respond to everything.
The annoying bots can be in your face and obvious. This is one of the “Lovely Content” bots that reply to every new post a person makes that contains an image.
I tested the nature of the silly bugger by posting an image complaining about the bots. This bot auto replied with a “Lovely Content” message.
These accounts proliferate by the hundreds, if not thousands, and are impossible to avoid. They can be identifies by their Zero to maybe 20 followers rating. Yes a new and earnest account would start out that way, but bot s have bot-behaviors. For a while I was blocking the Lovely Content bots but that became a wasted effort. New one popped up as fast as I would block them. Now I just ignore them.
Other bot-like accounts post messages they are buying NFT today and you should shill your items and they will buy a few from their Followers or will RT them if you RT the offer. No self-respecting shill-bot would have any number fewer than a 5-figure Follower count. Typically they have 30k to 50k or more Followers. Their bio usually touts their expertise at promoting your material. Have you ever seen one of these accounts follow up with what they purchased? I didn’t think so. If you did, I’d like to see the tweet they posted that you saw.
The Bots are a waste of time. I shilled some of my NFT long enough to be experienced enough with them to write about them. The best action is to interact with other photographers in your Followers bracket (100 to 2–3K). Comment, share, follow and RT among ourselves. If the “big guys” with 102.5K followers really wants to see our NFT and buy them, they will peruse the field and make offers.
My experience with Opensea.io is that if I mint new items in the evening (8–9 EDT) I will get 1 to 3 Favors on some items even as I am completing the next one. I usually do 3 0r 4 at a time. This means there are people watching a “live feed” of new content being created. One night I minted 5 images and got 4,3,3,1 and 0 Favorites on them. While the people representing the 3s could all be the same three people and be included in the 4, there were at least 4 people watching and possibly as many as 11. Probable more like the 4 count.
OpenSea.io has what is called the API which allows app developers to access the databases and pull such data. This is good. What it also means is the serious collectors are invisible and not out asking hopeful artists such as us to hand them the picture. Besides, then one of these shill-bots gets 1,000 or more replies, no one ever sees most of them. Just use your own scroll-down experiences to see how quickly you stop looking.
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