The Raygun post escaped containment on Twitter. It's been a while since I had one go beyond CT. Observations:

Following is truly dead: close to 1m impressions converted to 6 new followers.

It went through four distinct phases:
1. Breakout: need 10+ likes in the first 5 minutes or it's dead.
2. My following, mostly Ethereum and Farcaster.
3. Poasters: bluesky bios, dirtbag ironists on left and right, tech and postrats. Don't think it was too politically coded so there was something for everyone. Everyone still in on the joke at this point.
4. Normies: journos, assistant professors, accounts that send GIF replies. This is when they started taking the "well, actually" bait.

Probably won't make it to the circle of "true normies" beyond that.

Re: following, it depends on the nature of the post + a good bio.

When my crypto-focused post gone viral, I got 100s of new followers (linkrel). But if someone sees your funny tweet about breakdance and your bio doesn't tell too much, the conversion rate is low :(

I'm eth newbie..just learning
(working on @farcaster)

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Re: following, it depends on the nature of the post + a good bio.

When my crypto-focused post gone viral, I got 100s of new followers (linkrel). But if someone sees your funny tweet about breakdance and your bio doesn't tell too much, the conversion rate is low :(

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