I grew my Twitter follower count to 33.3% in one week 🥂

I am new to Twitter, besides the fact that I registered in 2012. I started to
tweet and engage one week ago.

At the beginning of the week, I had 26 followers. And now I have 39. The growth rate is roughly 33.3%. How did I achieve such "great" success?

It was a week of challenging work, but that's what I did:

1. Niche. I started to tweet about the topic I care about and am intensely proficient in — software engineering.
2. Friends. I concentrated on building genuine relationships with people I am interested in.
3. Authenticity. It is the most challenging part, but I try to replicate my patterns of thinking and how I behave and communicate offline.

A few words about authenticity and why it is hard for me: I have unpopular opinions in the niche I picked up — software engineering. Long story short, I believe that frameworks, DI containers, design patterns, OOP, microservices, and other highly hyped stuff are overrated and should be used only by prescription from the doctor.

I failed a lot and succeeded a lot as a software engineer. And what I saw is that most of the time, simple and elegant solutions won over complex over-engineered monsters. It might be a survivorship bias, but only time will let me know.

I know that absolute numbers are not that big, and I do not expect you to appreciate how hard it is to bootstrap your online presence and find like-minded friends.

Please, do not follow me if you are not interested in writing simple code, and I hope you had fun reading the post.