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How to get 14k+ new Twitter followers overnight

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    These top line metrics look nice, sure.

    But is this the same as "building an audience"? my gut says no.

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      It can be if he capitalize on this opportunity to actually create something meaningful like selling his product or maybe create a newsletter and do it repeatedly.

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        Selling his product is meaningful? A lot of his threads are already saying "fame has gotten into your head" and "I'm unfollowing you".

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        He could sell a product teaching people how to go viral on Twitter :)

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          You mean creating the type of product he was mocking in that viral tweet? I'm sure that will work great with his new following 😉

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    LOL - I saw that thread when he was still around 800 or so, I believe... Glad to see it has gone ballistic overnight.

    But once again, this is a lesson that most of the things that work for other people are simply not repeatable. Sure someone else could come up with a funny thread that is similar, and see only a handful of followers added. Timing and luck play such a huge part.

    But still, I hope it inspires someone else to come up with a pithy, funny tweet that may be the next 'Steve Lamar'... 😅

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    The power of humor is definitely underrated.

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    Very fun!! Absolutely this must be on threadok.com 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵

    The power of threads!

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    Humor wins. People like reading fun stories. I like it :)

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    amazing power of the internet. saw it when he had like 400 followers. My reply to his tweet got like 3k likes and I had around 200k impressions on that reply itself. I can't imagine stats for the original tweet.

    About the people trying to say this or that on the tweet, I would just say - people, relax :D

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    It was epic. I started to follow the thread on Sunday when he has like 12k followers.

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    Lol I saw this tweet and he was already at 2K. Good for him, was a funny thread.

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    I saw this thread when he was at 157. I didn’t expect this to blow up the way it did.

    Twitter is weird. Self-referential humor helps.

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    Great, now you'll get about 100 people to see/engage with your tweet as opposed to 5.

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    I don't get it. He didn't say anything.

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    Hahahaha I love this. I'm thinking about it and then I laugh to myself. Brilliant.

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    This is HILARIOUS!!! Congrats to him!

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    Wait, how the hell did that happen?

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      He basically wrote a thread covering his pitiful Twitter growth over the past few months. Ironically, the thread went viral and now he has 80x more followers. Combined humor with a situation people can relate to.

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        I especially liked the meta comments he added, like he had some premonition he had landed on the One True Way for going viral.

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