Hi!
Yesterday morning, I opened my to-do list. There was one nagging task that I have been delaying for months: reply to all DMs on Twitter. There were roughly 100 missed DMs.
People reach me out often there. Half of them ask questions about my project. The other half wants me to upvote their thing on Product Hunt.
To people who need me to press "Upvote" I reply with a template. Here it is:
> "Hey! I supported you (put my upvote) 👍 Good luck on your launch.
P.S. Check my YouTube channel about launching on Product Hunt.
I made an entire playlist of videos about this:
I also tell there about how to grow startups with $0 budget."
So I sent this text to roughly 25 people who asked me for an upvote.
And got my account permanently suspended. I'm also disallowed to create a new account 😇
> Your account is permanently in read-only mode, which means you can’t post, Repost, or Like content. You won’t be able to create new accounts.
Lessons:
1) According to the Twitter's documentation, your account gets blocked after 500 DMs. But I barely sent 50 DMs. Be careful.
2) Do not send copy-paste. Type.
3) The most important: you do not own your Twitter account. Do not put all eggs in 1 basket.
P.S.: I at least now I do not have to watch/read the 3 twitter courses I bought 😅
Question: what are some places to post my stuff? LinkedIn is cringey. Facebook is Facebook. Looking to try Polywork, Peerlist (modern LinkedIn clones) and niched communities (Solo Founders, WIP, Makerlog).
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