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!
yeah, it pays to build it now for when you’ll need it later. But I heard Mastodon was super anarchist, if there was an instance we would be sure not to be banned from it would be interesting and quite easy to double-post.
Also looking at bluesky maybe, people seem to talk about it less now but it could be interesting being an early adopter.
Mastodon is left-liberal, and of course the vibe is totally going to depend on who your instance federates with. I don’t think it’s a good place for propaganda. From my experience, the search function is bad, there are only a maximum of three trending hashtags at once, and of course federation means that all of the liberals will quarantine your instance. You could maybe game the trending hashtags though cause the userbase is small.
toots.matapacos.dog is the instance I use and it’s affiliated with Hexbear. It’s small and federated with liberals, anarchists, and communists. You’re not allowed to dunk on anarchists too hard though. So it’s a good place to chill with comrades, but for agitprop you’ll want to spin up your own instance if you decide to try Mastodon.
Yes, I’m promoting Lemmygrad on Mastodon.
This is hearsay.
I’m on Mastodon right now and it has a growing number of Marxist-Leninists!