1 Way to Be Popular on Twitter

by Ari Herzog on August 25, 2009 · 0 comments

Lisa Kraisriwatana is following 10 people on Twitter and has 13 followers. She is representative of the typical new user with Facebook-like status updates. Her last 20 tweets include zero replies and retweets. Her bio is short and to the point: I’m really popular and everyone likes me. Clearly.

Until moments ago, I didn’t know she existed. I found her by typing specific keywords at search.twitter.com and seeing this tweet of 24 hours ago:

A random Twitter message

A random Twitter message

The power of Twitter–or any social networking site that enables historical searching–is anyone can be found and gain popularity. You think Waldo the Basset Hound saw success overnight?

Gaming the system doesn’t work. Being yourself does. Be simple in what you say, have faith in cosmic discovery, and anything is possible.

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