a comment on twitter?
twitter can feel a little empty without the human interaction. recently, we got our first comment on a blog post from our respected adversary.
When I work on a blog post, I believe I am writing towards the abyss, to absolutely nothing. Sure, getting “likes” is something and retweets are something, but it takes minimal effort to do so. You can get away with it without even reading the content. I am also guilty of this. Sometimes I'll just reshare something because a lot of other people are doing it. It is like a natural human thing to do.
Now, as a writer who writes the original posts, it doesn't feel good to be on the back end of it. Although it sounds outrageous, it feels like twitter bots are behind it so I would stay loyal on their platform. I question if its worth writing any of these blog posts. I shouldn't expect anything out of it but its hard not to consider it. Am I not showing enough gratitude towards the internal values of writing? Its too soon to tell; it has been less than a month.
On March 17th, when the “Finding the Brand: Who’s your most respected adversary? How are they better?” blog was shared on twitter. Surprisingly, there was a response from our respected adversary, “unsigned_algorithms” which directed to the inaccuracies about them. This was a sound of life. It sounded like a real bird tweeting on a tree. Not that "Rick and Morty" cyber bird tweeting on a concrete building.
First, it meant that they read it.
Second, they cared enough to provide us feedback.
Third, I felt like I was part of the Cardano community.
Looking forward, I should spend more time editing the blog posts and make sure the data is accurate. People do read it.
Going back to what I said before about the shallowness of twitter interactions, I want to change my behaviors on twitter. I don’t want other writers to feel like their original blog posts doesn’t interact with humans. I wouldn't want that even for my worst enemies. Hence if I feel like I connected with their writing, I will provide a human response. Its just the human thing to do.
P.S. I wonder what “unsigned_algorithm” thought about our doodle/caricature on their art. It is the feature image of the blog post about them. In all fairness, I only spend like 10 seconds on any of the featured image drawings. Hopefully, they got a good laugh from it.