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So, my Halloween costume kind of went viral. It's roughly 20 times more popular than anything else I've ever posted. Some observations:
Blue checks (verified accounts) largely disappeared from the notification stream after the first few hours. Do people with serious followings not want to be seen as jumping on a bandwagon? Not sure how to test that hypothesis. Still, it was neat seeing Tony Robinson like it.
Not surprisingly, the love was mostly from history/philosophy/political science Twitter. But even as it spread into multiple language communities over the next few days, it was also always strongly leftist. Given the content of the actual book, I'm a bit surprised. I kept waiting for authoritarian asshats to arrive, and they never did.
I've gained something like 220 followers from this. I've had things go mildly viral before, usually when retweeted by Adam Savage or Seanan McGuire, and I've never gained a follower before. I realize that virality will always be some undefinable magic sauce, but I can't help but wonder what the difference was this time.
Blue checks (verified accounts) largely disappeared from the notification stream after the first few hours. Do people with serious followings not want to be seen as jumping on a bandwagon? Not sure how to test that hypothesis. Still, it was neat seeing Tony Robinson like it.
Not surprisingly, the love was mostly from history/philosophy/political science Twitter. But even as it spread into multiple language communities over the next few days, it was also always strongly leftist. Given the content of the actual book, I'm a bit surprised. I kept waiting for authoritarian asshats to arrive, and they never did.
I've gained something like 220 followers from this. I've had things go mildly viral before, usually when retweeted by Adam Savage or Seanan McGuire, and I've never gained a follower before. I realize that virality will always be some undefinable magic sauce, but I can't help but wonder what the difference was this time.