The Arduous Journey Towards Visibility
Twitter for a start
I hate Twitter but I also know it is a necessary evil. I get on the platform and it feels like a market square — everyone is talking all at once. No one is giving anyone the privilege of, ‘Hey, here is the title of this my word vomit’. (you know, like on Medium). At least on Instagram, there are pictures to help distract you.
Twitter, nahh. People just prattle on and on and on. Have a line of thought that pops into your head? Boom! You better share it with everyone else — in all of its unarticulated misshapen beauty. Short characters, sure, our eyes are expected to glance over it.
But, I cannot run from Twitter anymore. Everyone says content creators should get active on the platform.
So how do I start? I don’t know. Are all these people on my feed people I follow? When did I follow over 100 of them? Maybe that is where the first problem lies. I need to do a scrub and then, I need to start posting. Do I delete my old posts? Sure there is no rhyme or rhythm to them. Does there need to be a rhyme and a rhythm?
But posting what? Where are you, Eve Arnold? How does the content creator get started on Twitter? Should I just post whatever pops into my head? See I can’t. I want to schedule my posts (still don’t know what about). But schedule to post something every 5…hours? For the next 1 month? Are single line tweets better? Or do I need to do threads?
Do I do polls? Do I post poems? A breakdown of my Medium articles? Do I start begging for money? Gosh, this is so tasking.
In between panicking over this and writing this, I have successfully deleted some folks cos, its been years — I don’t know you! Next…what?
If anyone can tell me that I do not need to be on Twitter, engaging and whatever but showing up and building visibility is possible, please tell me. It may be a lie but I will believe you. I desperately want to believe it.
Is there anyone here who has cracked Twitter? Please do your girl a solid and share how you did it because I am about to do a deep dive — to the bottom. I don’t think it will be pretty. For a start, I cannot swim.
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