Foucault, the genius arch-nemesis of all that love goodness & truth in this world, rightly noted that secrets have power because of their forbidden quality. Their allure was their hidden nature; they gained power by pulling in the curious. That's my suggestion: tease the Secret Steve Space where the real noticing happens. (And then spell it funny so the algo doesn't catch it.)
I haven't signed up for X (I'm afraid I might get hooked), so the same fixed, random? tweets shown on your UNZ pages are the only ones visible to me. Yesterday, I looked at the Babylon Bee's X page, and their tweets were the last two days in order, something I haven't seen on anyone else's page. I deduce they can control what's visible to non-subscribers. Do you have that option?
Some time ago, Twitter changed its procedure to try to limit complete non-users' access. Ten years ago, or even as recently as five years ago, any non-user out there could follow everything in real-time without ever registering.
The new model is, if you aren't registered you will be usually blocked from viewing new tweets, and instead random assortments of attention-getting tweets will greet you. In other words, the default view of the "feed," in which Sailer's musings, quips, sundry sarcastic remarks, World's Most Important graphs, and promotions of NOTICING that were given on September 5 and 6, 2024, will generally NOT be found by a pure non-user -- except with direct link.
The point is to suck marginal users into registering.
Another purpose of this change is to help enforce the "blocking" feature. People who are blocked (as famous pundit and secret Sailer-follower Matthew Yglesias blocked Steve Sailer about two years ago) could formerly easily still follow their blockers' material by simply viewing any profile or tweet in sign-out form, as simple as opening an "Incognito" window.
A year or two ago, someone made a series of screen shots of the top of the Golf Course appearing after a particularly ignorant or muddle-headed tweet. I almost signed up after that.
That's called a "Sailer shark attack" video. I first saw one such two years ago, and it was indeed hilarious. It was promptly deleted by the censors of course.
Twitter definitely had an algorithm that throttled visibility of comments on certain topics. I joined it before Musk took over (not with this handle) and twice had a comment retweeted by accounts with six figure followers without a single subsequent 'like.'
The leftist/establishment media (but I repeat myself) spent years denying there was any such thing as the government conspiring with Twitter to deplatform, delete, suppress, and/or shadow-ban adverse information. After Elon Musk took over Twitter, he discovered reams of files documenting exactly that, which he granted Matt Taibbi access to publish.
Having been proven once again to be utterly corrupt shameless liars, the establishment media slunk off into into a dark corner and were never heard from again.
Lol, just kidding.
Having been exposed once again as utterly corrupt shameless liars, the establishment media seamlessly switched gears to denying that the Twitter Files meant anything at all or if it did mean something it was too vague and ambiguous to quantify. And 99.9% of their audience obediently nodded along. And still do.
Steve, perhaps you can use an icon/emoji or whatever they're called of a "Sub"-marine and a chimney "stack" when referencing your Substack account? Or would such a thing be obtuse for most to easily understand? That's all I have, Steve!
Are you sure those new followers are real people? Some people say that all Musk has done with Twitter is remove the prohibition of fake, bot-driven accounts.
(Not to be too much of a wet blanket about your new success. Everyone should read Steve Sailer!)
Encouraging your readers to change their Twitter/X settings so that they are explicitly notified every time you Tweet might be useful. I’ve done this for only two accounts (yours and my sole Twitter crush) and I never miss a post.
I'd like an audiobook of noticing. I'm lazy.
"Listening"
Someone could whip up a quick AI Sailer voice
Foucault, the genius arch-nemesis of all that love goodness & truth in this world, rightly noted that secrets have power because of their forbidden quality. Their allure was their hidden nature; they gained power by pulling in the curious. That's my suggestion: tease the Secret Steve Space where the real noticing happens. (And then spell it funny so the algo doesn't catch it.)
It's widely assumed that besides my millions of published words, I also must have a Secret Doctrine that I'm covering up.
My response is, when would I have the time?
That is exactly what someone with a Secret Doctrine would say.
SEE?! Such a pithy response must mean...
I haven't signed up for X (I'm afraid I might get hooked), so the same fixed, random? tweets shown on your UNZ pages are the only ones visible to me. Yesterday, I looked at the Babylon Bee's X page, and their tweets were the last two days in order, something I haven't seen on anyone else's page. I deduce they can control what's visible to non-subscribers. Do you have that option?
Some time ago, Twitter changed its procedure to try to limit complete non-users' access. Ten years ago, or even as recently as five years ago, any non-user out there could follow everything in real-time without ever registering.
The new model is, if you aren't registered you will be usually blocked from viewing new tweets, and instead random assortments of attention-getting tweets will greet you. In other words, the default view of the "feed," in which Sailer's musings, quips, sundry sarcastic remarks, World's Most Important graphs, and promotions of NOTICING that were given on September 5 and 6, 2024, will generally NOT be found by a pure non-user -- except with direct link.
The point is to suck marginal users into registering.
Another purpose of this change is to help enforce the "blocking" feature. People who are blocked (as famous pundit and secret Sailer-follower Matthew Yglesias blocked Steve Sailer about two years ago) could formerly easily still follow their blockers' material by simply viewing any profile or tweet in sign-out form, as simple as opening an "Incognito" window.
How did B Bee get a different choice of tweets?
I know X is trying to get me to sign up.
It occurred to me that it was Babylon Bee's troubles with Twitter that got Musk interested. I'll bet they get preferential treatment.
> Another purpose of this change is to help enforce the "blocking" feature.
As it stands I have another Twitter account that I access through a different browser. That way I can still follow those who have blocked me.
I was on X/Twitter for several years and quit when I saw how many of my fellow citizens were stupid, evil, or stupid and evil.
A year or two ago, someone made a series of screen shots of the top of the Golf Course appearing after a particularly ignorant or muddle-headed tweet. I almost signed up after that.
That's called a "Sailer shark attack" video. I first saw one such two years ago, and it was indeed hilarious. It was promptly deleted by the censors of course.
Twitter definitely had an algorithm that throttled visibility of comments on certain topics. I joined it before Musk took over (not with this handle) and twice had a comment retweeted by accounts with six figure followers without a single subsequent 'like.'
Yeah, the "Twitter files".
https://www.racket.news/p/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter
The leftist/establishment media (but I repeat myself) spent years denying there was any such thing as the government conspiring with Twitter to deplatform, delete, suppress, and/or shadow-ban adverse information. After Elon Musk took over Twitter, he discovered reams of files documenting exactly that, which he granted Matt Taibbi access to publish.
Having been proven once again to be utterly corrupt shameless liars, the establishment media slunk off into into a dark corner and were never heard from again.
Lol, just kidding.
Having been exposed once again as utterly corrupt shameless liars, the establishment media seamlessly switched gears to denying that the Twitter Files meant anything at all or if it did mean something it was too vague and ambiguous to quantify. And 99.9% of their audience obediently nodded along. And still do.
Steve, perhaps you can use an icon/emoji or whatever they're called of a "Sub"-marine and a chimney "stack" when referencing your Substack account? Or would such a thing be obtuse for most to easily understand? That's all I have, Steve!
i would just post a paragraph from the article along with a photo, then write "link in bio" at the bottom.
I'm not an expert on this, but I think that if you have a non-substack url (a personalized url), then you won't get throttled.
Are you sure those new followers are real people? Some people say that all Musk has done with Twitter is remove the prohibition of fake, bot-driven accounts.
(Not to be too much of a wet blanket about your new success. Everyone should read Steve Sailer!)
And fix the headline! :-) It's 100,000, not 100,00.
Your title is missing a 0
Encouraging your readers to change their Twitter/X settings so that they are explicitly notified every time you Tweet might be useful. I’ve done this for only two accounts (yours and my sole Twitter crush) and I never miss a post.
I deleted my Twitter account the day that Trump was banned. But I came back to X, and it's far better!