decided to "revive" my Xitter account that I haven't touched since 2020, trying to post 2 times a week, all of my 30 or so followers are idle so I get no engagement which feels like starting from scratchare there any benefits to starting a fresh account or should I stop overthinking this and just keep grinding? I also have like 500 art accounts followed so my feed serves as big inspirationI don't know how much the algo has changed since the takeover so any feedback would be appreciated!
>>7803176Why should I tell you lol? The competition is bad enough without me sharing social media tips on /ic/.
Just post anyway and one day someone will find you and see the garden you planted as you moved in silence, unmoved by external factors such as likes. You will be rewarded handsomely.
>>7803182why did you reply if you don't want to help then lol, seems like youre seeking attention>>7803188is this a quote from something?
>>7803176I quit sharing artwork there because nobody was reposting me. I just go there for the porn.>>7803188This doesn't happen.You'll just be forgotten.
>>7803176You chose a bad time to revive your account, X has introduced something like country flags so there is going to be lot of poo flinging and personal biases.
>>7803226>this doesn’t happenthen make it happen>you’ll just be forgottenbut you weren’t discovered so why does it matter? that’s like worrying about the state of the world when you’re not even born yet
>>7803236Yeah I just deleted my account because of that
>>7803236>X has introduced something like country flags so there is going to be lot of poo flinging and personal biases.I dont see anything like that, what does that even mean? that if I'm posting from Malaysia or something they'll actually force me to have that flag next to my pfp and I'll get called brown? kek
>>7803176You abandoned your account and people forgot about you. What did you expect?
>>7803176The only way to start getting a following right now is by promoting yourself on other sites and places like Discord especially if you don't have friends with big dick accounts to promote you.The days when you just had to post your art(even if it's begshit) to become popular are over.
>>7803553If you click In the date you joined in the profile it shows the location the account is based on and if you're using a VPN it shows as well
>>7803942uhhhany pics or links? it shows that you're using vpns? i dont have twitter but if im gonna have one might as well start properly so i dont get doxxed (or is that not possible now?)
>>7804255NTA but it's been toned down a bit, before it used to show the country an account was created inin picrel the ! in a shield shows that the user has been using a VPN to connect to the account, from which users can imply whether the account is legitimately from said country, larping as being from that country, or simply using a VPN for privacy reasonsif instead of that shield thing it shows a it can be inferred the user is legitimately from that country, though take this with a grain of salt as my profile currently shows this symbol even though I've been using a VPN for yearsmore indicatively is that it also shows how they're connecting to xwitter, if you only ever login from a browser it will simply show connected via "Web" instead of a specific appstore, for instance an account with a VPN from Japan but they're using the US app store? bit weirdyou can also set it to only show the region instead, though this comes with its own bias from what I've seen (North America = not USA = mexico/canada, East Asia & Pacific = not Japan = Philippines/Malaysia etc, Europe = ???)some users also have their country set as "Unknown", though I haven't delved into how one would do this
>>7804270>shows a itfucking hiroshit, the circled i icon shown top rightinterestingly enough setting it to region also obscures the app being used a bitbtw the "based in" is determined by the account's IP history from ~over a monthlogging in from another IP once will not certainly get logges but it shouldn't suddenly change it (immediately)
>>7804274>not certainly get loggeswewlad
>>7804274>>7804270ok thanksso i should just suck it up then and register as usual? since there doesn't seem to be a way to skip this other than apparently find the more vague setting of the larger region which i guess is fine too
>>7803176you should interact with content that you like that's similar to the kind of content you produces, because it is not about gathering arbitrary followings but finding people who likes the same stuff you do. You can also do it the hard way if for whatever reasons to not retweet or like, but in that case you'll need to do a lot of your own promotion off-site because there not as much vector that causes people to look at your stuff. I tried to get people a leg up by retweeting some stuff but often times it has limited impact on their engagement because their content doesn't align with interest of my followers.
unless you're paying for the blue check you're going to be invisible
>>7804294false, maybe youre just not as good as you think
>>7803176Twitter's algorithm went to shit after they started monetizing posts. Now there's an incentive for people to generate as much click bait as possible so your work is competing harder than ever with posts that serve no purpose other than to suck up views and attention. There's a billion Indians working nights and day to fill Twitter to the breaking point with slop content, so I wouldn't really go on looking for views. However considering how vast the Twitter audience is it gives you the best possible shot at reaching an audience. What you need to do is find a niche community ecosystem within the larger Twitter user base to thrive in. Unless your work has a consistent theme, fetish, subject matter, fandom etc. and unless you can make waves in the community around that to the point that other content creators with large audiences are regularly retweeting your work and boosting you in the algorithm, you're basically not gonna exist on Twitter in any kind of meaningful way, no matter how good your work is. I can however recommend deviantart. It's got an insane reputation, it is still filled to the brim with some of the most whack ass cringe art you've ever gazed upon, it's also rancid with AI (though you can mostly filter this out). However the engagement I got on there as a small account with 0 followers has been nuts. Within less than a week I'm getting dm'd for comms and have pieces with 100s of likes and saves. It just seems to be a much more even playing field, and a lot of the user base will browse by tag but sort from newest. Also the tags actually work, unlike Twitter where they pretend to but secretly fuck you over. Newgrounds, Pixiv, even Fur Affinity (lol) and Art Station are better options than Twitter for small accounts. My advice to anyone who struggles on Twitter (like basically everyone except the massive accounts or those who've found their community do), is don't struggle in vain. If Twitter doesn't want to play ball, don't bother.
>>7803188Also this. Treat Twitter like a daily to do list not an endless scroll doom spiral where you feel the positivity being sucked out of your life as you desperately compete for attention in an ocean of distractions. I recently abandoned ship on a 1600+ follower account where I was bending over backwards to get the algorithm to notice me (and getting basically nothing back) to start a new Twitter from the ground up. I invited all of my previous comms to join me, (a lot of them followed me over) as well as some mutuals I had a positive relationship with and now Twitter works much better for me. I'm sitting at less than 100 followers but my timeline is pure art, all the time. It's much smaller, but I'm not pursuing the big number on there. I have plenty to draw and plenty invested on other sites. Now I log in, check DMs, reply if I gotta post, my WIP or my study or my latest piece, scroll the timeline, retweet what I like, comment here, like there, enjoy the scroll the way it's meant to be enjoyed, and I dip within like 5-10 minutes. The engagement on my work is actually about the same lol.
>>7806393>>7806405Thank you!
>the 5th xiitter thread in a weekno one was already using it really besides dropping their shit and trying to farmNow no one is genuinely using it anymore since interaction is deader than everYou'll have more chances doing numbers by going outsideStop making these shitty threads
If you want to grow on twitter you have to become a personality and post about shit no one cares about to grow. That's what the algorithm rewards over a human image bot unfortunately.
>>7803188Yeah this doesn't happen, go look at any youtube channel that "made it" over a long period of time (as opposed to their first video ever getting 1M views)Nobody goes and watches their older catalog.
