Operating Twitter in English-speaking Countries

20241003

• To Do

• Objective: Build momentum for when returning to the United States in January

  • Plan to acquire social capital through face-to-face and online interactions simultaneously
    • Since online interactions are somewhat more gradual, it feels right to start with them first

• Plan A:

  • Switch @blu3mo to English operation
    • Probably, if someone from the English-speaking XR/HCI community looks at the current @blu3mo, they should see that they are followed by people like David Holz and Pedro Lopes
      • Therefore, they should not appear as completely suspicious
    • With a foundation already in place, aim to gradually increase credibility on English-speaking social media platforms
    • By starting with English-speaking individuals who have one foot in the Japanese community, it seems possible to effectively build up followers like rolling a snowball
  • Personal Japanese tweets will be posted on various accounts like @times and @blu4mo
    • This is already starting to happen
    • Expanding blu4mo a bit more might be a good idea
  • There doesn’t seem to be any significant downside to doing this
    • Even if it’s tried temporarily and then withdrawn, nothing significant comes to mind that would be lost
    • It would be surprising if starting English operations led to a drastic decrease in followers, but it’s probably not going to happen as expected
  • Also, want to maintain a presence on LinkedIn, although the extent of its effectiveness is uncertain
    • Everyone only seems to say “I am thrilled to announce that,” but there is a theory that it’s not a bad place to post because surprisingly, many people seem to be watching

• Plan B:

  • Establish a new English account
  • Hmm, tried this before but there are several reasons why it didn’t work out
    • (blu3mo) cannot monitor three timelines
    • Starting from 0 followers puts you at a disadvantage algorithmically

• Next Actions

  • Is it better to use a real name?
  • Translate some slightly controversial tweets from the past in the Japanese community into English
    • First, want to set the conditions for doing this
  • Create an English portfolio
    • A page explaining interests and experiences should suffice

• Reference Examples

  • https://x.com/0xCommune
  • https://x.com/AsuNa_jp
    • Seems to be managing well in a bilingual manner

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• Are you going to do it? (blu3mo)

  • The idea that interesting tech people are on Twitter is the same in the English-speaking community
  • Want to find interesting people in NYC/USA, so there’s motivation to engage with English-speaking Twitter

• For now, maybe I’ll translate and post past viral tweets in English (blu3mo)

• Rethinking the operation of Twitter and Scrapbox in 2023