Bruh! I can’t even Tweet Anymore!

4 min readJan 11, 2022

I am huge on twitter.

Not like that. Nobody knows me there. I only have about 1K followers. However, I have been actively tweeting for the last 12 years, almost 13. This is fascinating to me. It’s even more intriguing that for 13 years, I have never had anything important to say!

But twitter is a big deal to me man! It’s the first app I install in any new device, my college friend once told me, he remembers me for twitter. I made them all sign up, and talked about it every single day. My wife says she doesn’t understand my tweets, my dad once told me that I overshare on twitter.

I’m fascinated by this social phenomenon though. I dunno why it rings a bell for so many people. I also realize that we are immortalizing our thoughts and opinions, and this will remain for generations. Maybe we all want to feel heard and we all want to have something important to say.

The other day, I shared my struggle with this app, and for the first time, my mostly quiet twitter did numbers! bro! (by numbers I mean 22 likes and a bunch of replies and one follow!)

I started thinking, hmm, maybe this is what I should be talking about . My first time to get this massive interaction, unlike the one time Naval retweeted me and I went semi viral. Talk to me! I’m famous bro! Check out my sound-cloud.

I have chased this dream of having something important to say for so long that it is impressive to me. I took notice when more people like my tweets, and it stops me in my tracks. Why?

All writers encourage people to find an audience, to have something to talk about — a niche. The reason for this is that, it’s easier if people can expect something from you. Imagine if I talked about crypto all day. Then probably people would expect me to be a crypto expert. And only talk about that. It’s also easier to brand your channel and spread your energy.

I dislike that so much because I think it is limiting to the things I can explore in real life. I also think real people are generally interested in more things, because, life!.

Generalist Writer

I made this new commitment and it’s killing me inside, but I have to talk about it publicly .

I have made an executive decision to be a generalist in how I show up online. More power to people who come through with power threads. People who create a bunch of deep resources for writers.

I don’t think there are rules, as there are best practices. But it is not easy to give yourself the permission of being a creative generalist.

Am I too self absorbed?

In the two last medium posts, I shared about how one needs to find an audience, if one can’t find, they need to pull one out of their butt, and talk to them all day.

But what if one can’t do either? What if one doesn’t want to create for an audience but for self indulgence? Does that still fit the bill? I suppose. I think if I had more inclination to the value my work can provide, I can get better started at sharing targeted information.

Can I really be a generalist though?

I don’t think so. I pondered on the topics I read and watch online, and they are

Finance, (& Business, Startups etc)
Creativity ( Writing, Design, Photography, Music & Film)
Church Tech
Christian Topics
Crypto ( a new addition to the list)
Web Technologies. ( I binge a lot on coding things lately)

I do not care much for Sports, Celebrity Gossip, fashion, and all other sub cultures that exist online. So can I really be a real generalist when the types of things I am already interested in seem finite? But, it’s not one thing, say, like the computer programming, python guy! Or the (insert alternative coin) Crypto dude! It’s a good cocktail.

Permission

I am here to give myself permission to talk about all these things, and sorta just forget the good writing advice. Maybe this writing advice works for people with demonstratable track record in sharing their thoughts online, and also, maybe I’m not yet that person!

I hate the feeling that, I shouldn’t be able to talk about subject that I have no insight into. I accept this, and I will talk all about it anyways. That’s the only way I can grow.