Tiny Twitter hacks I learned & love, part V

Part 5 of tiny yet cool Twitter hacks that I’m slowly accumulating over all the daily practice and observing how others do it:

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

• Occasional profile page face-lifts. I recently updated my Twitter profile bio into indie solopreneur. It felt more authentic, and gave visitors something more about why they should follow me. It gave a small boost in new followers.
• It’s ok to walk away. I took a break for 2-3 months but continued with daily scheduled posting. But I replied a lot less. And mostly didn’t care about the app on weekends. Engagement and impressions suffered, but it’s not too hard to build it back. If I’m in this for the long game, this is but a small blimp.
• Shit-posting is a viable strategy. Just like how @dagorenouf got big using startup memes. Not to mention, it’s just so much fun, and a good way to cull my following of folks who don’t get my humour. If you can’t find what I find funny funny too, maybe we’re not in the same tribe.
• Write only when inspired. I now write my indie hacking tweets only when inspired. Spending just a few minutes on it. But it’s all queued up to a consistent publishing schedule. The best of both worlds from consistency and inspiration!
• Caveat to the strategy of reply thoughtful replies to big accounts: You don’t have to reply to big accounts if you don’t have anything good to say or if it’s no fun that they don’t reply to you. Just shut up and learn from them. Replying to peers is more fun.
• Build your best self in public. My latest take on building an audience = Surrounding myself with people who help me build my best self in public (inspiration, accountability, influence). Build an informal mastermind of peers on Twitter. Build an audience and it builds you back, and I should stick to influence from people who are actually a good influence.
• Tweet about your product without tweeting about your product, by actually doing the thing with your product. I stopped tweeting writing-related content + plug about my product, and just tweeted single building in public tweet + screenshot of longer form Lifelog post, followed by a reply tweet to the link to the Lifelog post. No more daily asks to get people to my product. It ended up working slightly better - I had more sign-ups using this indirect strategy than direct asks. Instead of talking about writing, just write and show how it’s done.
• My latest form of engagement list is a list of @mention account names in a DM to myself. I stopped using Twitter Lists because of too much noise (it showed replies). I used Chrome bookmarks to open >20 profile pages of everyone on the list, but that was a pain - it just hung my Chrome for a while before I can use it. Now I use a ‘bookmarks’ list in a DM to myself, open the desktop DM picture-in-picture window, and click through to open up profile pages. No more having to switch windows/tabs, open them all.
• Tweeting about my family. This isn’t about using family or kids as a tool. It’s about being authentic and just sharing what really moves me as an indie hacker. I recently tweeted this out, which I consider one of my most personally significant tweets I ever posted. It didn’t go viral, but that wasn’t the goal. It felt right, because that’s increasingly what drives me, what gives me happiness to what I do.

What other tiny Twitter hacks do you know?