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However, Twitter is its own language.
The most common question we hear from writers is, “What do I do if I’m staring with
zero followers on Twitter?”
The reason we use Twitter as a publishing platform, and why we encourage writers not
to start writing on their own personal blog (at first) is because these social platforms
are designed to get your content in front of the right people. That’s how these social
algorithms work. It doesn’t matter if you have 1 Follower or 100,000 Followers—if the
algorithm sees people engaging with your content, it is going to serve it up to more and
more people. The number of followers you have is sort of irrelevant.
For example: here’s a Tweet Dickie wrote when he had around ~20,000 followers.
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