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!
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.
I would kill to have Hakim do an AMA here.
You hear that, Critical? Even the people here wants it.
So y’all should try and get Hakim in here.
That way our rival wouldn’t be able to have all the credit of being able to get a deprogram member into their board.
I vote we should get both Hakim and Yogopnik here, that way we can have them outmatched 2 to 1
that’s a great idea! we should focus on hakim first though
hakim and the grad’s colors match after all haha.
yes, we must go after one at a time, we cannot split our resources.
I can ask Second Thought personally whether he’d like to do something with Lemmygrad later on.
That sounds excellent
Indeed.
Hakim is too humble to do AMAs, he didn’t even want us to make him a page on ProleWiki!
Whaaaaaaat, but he did AMAs years ago, notably on Discord… 😔
I’m 100% certain he did, but he deleted a lot of his older videos so I can’t even link it here.
I remember watching that video, it was a vc on the Politics discord.
Hakim has also made dumb comments in the past, most notably about Anfal and the Ottoman empire and the like, so I would say that that’s why he deleted some of his older material.
Is Hexbear or whatever it’s called any good?