46 The Psychology of Viral Content
Nov 05, 2021•48 min•Ep. 46
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Episode description
What makes a tweet thread either go viral or go to zero? Christian talks about his recent tweet thread that didn't get any likes, and Chris talks about some of the ways he's used tweet threads in the past. Also: is twitter really the best medium for what we want to share anyway?
00:00 Intro
00:27 Diminishing returns and catching little bugs
05:43 The Go programming language
10:09 Deleting youtube and twitter experiment
22:26 The feeling of flow
26:37 Why tweet threads do well or poorly
39:04 Why do people click retweet?
40:49 The importance of consistency on twitter
45:46 Digital gardening
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