1M impressions

My first tweet to hit 1M impressions!!! 🤯🤯🤯

A blow-by-blow breakdown of the breakthrough tweet:

• I read this HN post before, and recently re-read it. Resonates every single time.
• Decided to screenshot it and save it in my Telegram Saved Messages as reference.
• The story kept running in my head, kept thinking about it.
• A QT by @levelsio about GDP and hunger for success made me associate it with this HN post, decided to reply it there. The reply got many likes.
• Didn’t know what to tweet for the weekend, so thought that since this post keeps running through my head, I should just tweet it out and put a close to it. From experience, writing and publishing it helps to close the circuit, stranegly.
• Didn’t try to be be clever or witty or controversial. Or anything at all. I literally just wrote what resonated with me, and shared it. It didn’t even try to give any so-called “value”.
• It started slow but after a few big accounts QTed it it started to take off. Seems like it resonated with them too.
• Realised I started a Twitter war on class struggle, even though I never intended it to be. I guess topics like that just trigger a lot of positive and negative responses, especially on Twitter. It’s got a life of its own now, nothing I can do. 🤷‍♂️
• Many replies completely missed the point. Some took the analogy literally. My top favourite is probably “Why does the middle class only get one throw?!” Like, dude, it’s metaphorical not literal. 😂
• Survivorship bias is rampant even though many disagree with the analogy, when they said they’re not from rich family/poor immigrant/family lived with dirt floor/etc but they made it due to grit and agency and all the nice sounding words associated with “meritocracy”. A minority of outliers doesn’t mean the system as a whole is equitable. In fact, I’d argue that rags-to-riches stories have become weaponized to maintain status quo of wealth stratification.
• Another reading comprehension problem - the HN post is “dangerous” because it affirms a defeatist attitude in poor. Nowhere does it argue for that. It’s just plainly states high probabilities of success from having easier access to resources.
• Decided to not reply every single reply or QT to maintain sanity and stay away from toxic/lame arguments.
• Built on the tweet and QTed something more useful and practical on Day 3 – how indie hackers can get more throws.
• Got maybe new 200-300 followers from this. I would normally be excited af, but most replies are from waaay outside my Twitter circle so unsure if the followers are even folks I would normally even want to chat with…
• First time seeing my tweet keep going even after 48h. It went out on 1 July, and 3 days later it’s still going strong. Past 100k impressions after Day 1, >700k impressions after Day 2, and now 1M after Day 3.
• No fancy tips or tricks to share, no $999 Twitter course to pitch here. As with most viral content, you can never reproduce it. Only thing I will say that this affirms:

Twitter hack: Spill your heart out and don’t give a damn what anyone else thinks. – @LaddLaddLadd

And “Twitter is dead”, they say. 😂