My 1st "thread" attempt and first 100 RT Tweet

I've been reading Cortland talk about IHers who are really into Twitter optimization in recent podcast transcripts and I thought I'd really have a go at it.

Especially given how much Twitter helped me pre-sell an ebook, it seemed like it would be worthwhile to build up my personal account. It's currently smaller than my Alchemist Camp account.

I did a 5-tweet thread and far exceeded my previous best, with any Twitter account. With 538 followers and without asking for retweets, I got over 200k impressions and 15k engagements throughout the thread and the 2nd tweet in it is about to break 100 retweets.

Here's the strategy I used:

Tweet #1: An honest expression of excitement and surprise about something I'd learned from a blog post that aggregated data about startups. You can probably guess about the result from the tweet, but this tweet builds curiosity.
Tweet #2: The big reveal. It's also a revelation that will make many people proud of their work and many, many others feel vindicated in their decision making. Still others will want to amplify the message for reasons.
Tweet #3: Additional information I looked up myself that supports and even intensifies the big reveal.
Tweet #4: Perspective and qualifying statements about the topic. This tweet is for the haters. It gets retweeted by people who dislike or want to minimize Tweet #2 and Tweet #3.
Tweet #5: The open ended question that people will have a wide variety of opinions about.