Last week, we made a Twitter thread on the Otto Warmbier story that reached 125k people.
A few days later, we made a thread on Yeonmi Park that reached 450k people on Twitter.
Since then, any tweet we send out has been an instant hit, garnering 10000 views at the very least.
The Yeonmi Park thread was such a hit that Natalie Everhart and Hakim messaged us lol (okay technically we messaged Natalie first for help on a follow-up thread)
I’ve been posting nonstop since then to try and ride that wave as much as possible, spacing the tweets out by a day or two each so that they don’t cannibalise each other.
This is after we’d been stuck in the void for a few months, desperately posting to go from 2390 to 2400 followers, our tweets getting a measly 300 views no matter on the quality.
With just two viral tweets, we gained 1400 followers, or more than 50%.
DPRK posting especially got them hooked, a simple picture of a bus stop in Pyongyang got 50k views.
It’s also been great for redirecting traffic to PW, but not so much to get new editors yet.
I have to admit it’s getting difficult to find stuff to tweet about and it takes a while to prepare those threads so if anyone of our Lemmygradians has ideas and would like to write a thread for us, I think that could be worked out. You get at least 10000 views guaranteed (it’s addictive) and we can link to your handle!
I like how the prolewiki Twitter accounts’ response to some spewing horseshit in the replies is just “you don’t know what you’re talking about” 😂💀
That was me 🙋
I just don’t bother with these people anymore. If they want to learn in good faith then we can have a discussion (everything is in the thread so it’ll have to be one hell of a conversation to keep me engaged). If they just want to scream into the void I roast and then block them.
We got a couple people saying “no this is wrong” in the QTs too but they don’t bring any argument lol, they just make an appeal to authority – themselves, some rando on Twitter who could be a cat for all I know.