I described on Tuesday I was going to attempt a social media experiment ‘again.’ I was referring to this clusterfuck of a project, from just over a year ago: using a directory of porn stars’ Twitter, uh, X accounts to attempt to boost my blog readership. Using Fame Registry, I found hundreds of accounts from porn actresses - people in a field in which I've received blog retweets before and hence many blog hits.
I sent these two tweets each time:
Hi, I’m a blogger conducting an experiment with social media. My blog is Power is a State of Mind. https://powerisastateofmind.blogspot.com/
I have a small favour to ask, (INSERT NAME): could you repost my blog please? It will be a huge help and I’ll give you a good mention.
This time, I made sure I included the @ handle in the second tweet, meaning the recipient sees both tweets and may do what I ask. Otherwise, I'd have been tweeting back to myself, which is an infuriating glitch that Musk seems to have created. I investigated nearly 80 accounts, tweeting to those that had been active in the last month, of which there weren’t many. People - porn stars at least - have largely given up on X.
One person, Kathia Nobili, reshared (Elon Musk won’t let us call it a retweet any more) to her 57.7K followers.
I managed to do this for 2 days, before X slapped me with this:
How long is this for? I have no idea. To be fair, I did get a little boost. I'm now at 1,112,001 page views. 3K hits today.
So yeah, that’s another thing from my Before 42 bucket list ticked off, fail as it was. Scandinavia is booked. I guess I do what I want now!
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