Engineering negative virality

Published: April 16, 2020, 9:24 p.m.

b'In-depth case study of a nuclear tweet. After my globally nuclear tweet about Greta & Epstein, I thought a lot about the factors that predict negative virality (AKA being "ratio\'ed" on Twitter; getting a high ratio of replies to retweets, i.e. a lot of backlash relative to endorsement). A few weeks later, when drafting a quick tweet, I had a very strong intuition that the tweet would be ratio\'ed hard. When I turned out to be right, I gained confidence in my theory of negative virality and decided to elaborate it through a case study of this one particular tweet. \\u2726 The tweet. https://twitter.com/jmrphy/status/1197664774097522688 \\u2726 I have a free course on this stuff, called Revolutionary Internet Galaxy-Brain. \\u2726 If you\'d like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation to my free community forum. \\u2726 This podcast is made possible by my patrons so big thanks to them. If you\'d like to help expand my operations, you can become a patron yourself.'