The next successful twitter account to learn from is Santiago @ https://twitter.com/svpino.
This one is especially interesting because he talks about machine learning. I don’t know when exactly but like a year or 2 ago. He only had a few followers. Now he’s sitting at 330k followers.
So you can see why I would want to emulate this guy!
Quick Takeaways
- He posts somewhere between 3–5 posts a day
- His posts are often pretty long
Topics and Subjects
- Why you should learn machine learning
- Different observations and things
- Sponsor me, here’s a service I provide, this is the course I’m selling
- Free workshops
- Code snippets, I’ll explain if you reply to this thread
- He also does videos
- He has courses on GumRoad, that teach you how to get projects on UpWork
- He has a machine learning course that’s cohort based
- Interesting things like
- Different machine learning frameworks and their benefits
- 7 ideas that helped him succeed
- He calls out some people for spreading crap, he says certain people have a ring for pumping each other’s content
- Personal life stories
- This saved me a lot of time and effort
How He Sells Ideas
- This new library will 2x your workflow
- Building ML workflows will be the most in demand skill in the next 20 years
- Long time ago I made a huge bet, after 15 years of software engineering I decided to go into machine learning, everyone said it was a bad idea, now they’re following my lead
- I used to steal to feed my family, I immigrated from Cuba with no money, odds were stacked against me, everyone quits after a week, but I have high success rate, that’s why I can teach you how to succeed
- My freelancing course just surpassed 400 students
- There’s a talent shortage in building machine learning systems
His Advice
- Take risks
- Experiment more
- Be solutions oriented
- Show initiative
- Take responsibility
One thing he said really resonated with me. Which was the unscalable kind of effort you have to show initially on a platform.
His Advice
- Post daily
- Network daily
- There’s seemingly a theme everyday on twitter, this is because 10% are original and 90% are reposting, regurgitating
- He splits his posts into digestible sentences
- Some days he posts 6, some days 1
Lessons
- Twitter algorithm changed, now it favours small creators
- Share personal stories
- Use the template “How I…”
- Reply to creators in the comments
- Add eye catching images to your posts
- Comment on others posts for 30 to 60 minutes
- Get followed by big, medium accounts
- Long form is the queen, email is king
- Always write to 1 person
- Own the distribution
- Make it emotional
- Post your why
