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Last week, we made a Twitter thread on the Otto Warmbier story that reached 125k people.

A few days later, we made a thread on Yeonmi Park that reached 450k people on Twitter.

Since then, any tweet we send out has been an instant hit, garnering 10000 views at the very least.

The Yeonmi Park thread was such a hit that Natalie Everhart and Hakim messaged us lol (okay technically we messaged Natalie first for help on a follow-up thread)

I've been posting nonstop since then to try and ride that wave as much as possible, spacing the tweets out by a day or two each so that they don't cannibalise each other.

This is after we'd been stuck in the void for a few months, desperately posting to go from 2390 to 2400 followers, our tweets getting a measly 300 views no matter on the quality.

With just two viral tweets, we gained 1400 followers, or more than 50%.

DPRK posting especially got them hooked, a simple picture of a bus stop in Pyongyang got 50k views.

It's also been great for redirecting traffic to PW, but not so much to get new editors yet.

I have to admit it's getting difficult to find stuff to tweet about and it takes a while to prepare those threads so if anyone of our Lemmygradians has ideas and would like to write a thread for us, I think that could be worked out. You get at least 10000 views guaranteed (it's addictive) and we can link to your handle!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hakim messaged us lol

We should definitely try to get Hakim to do an AMA on the grad. Hexbeareans managed to get JT/Second Thought to do an AMA on their cave of bears, only makes sense that being a red and yellow lemmy instance that we'd interview someone with a red and yellow profile picture lol.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would kill to have Hakim do an AMA here.