Aaron Parecki

You learn something from every single YouTube video you make.

I work with creators ranging from 37,000 subscribers to 3,000,000.

Here are 5 retention-killing traps I've fallen into as a scriptwriter over the last year 🧵:

Everyone on social media should know about the Illusory Truth Effect

If you see something repeated enough times, it seems more true. Multiple studies show that it works on 85% of people. Worse, it still happens even if the information isn't plausible & even if you know better.

Remember: the chaos is the point. This is a green light to trolls, election meddlers, and disinfo peddlers. Elon loves the trash fire. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-01/twitter-limits-content-enforcement-tools-as-us-election-looms

Scammers are using potential Twitter verification news and updates to trick folks into giving away their credentials via phishing emails fast. Cyber criminals often use breaking or current events and platform updates to trick via email or social media message. Example below.

Teach your kids how to dial a rotary phone, connect to the internet via a dial-up modem, use 1-800-CALL-ATT, hook paper up to a dot-matrix printer, scan documents with a hand-held scanner, log on to IRC, and any other real-world skills your ancestors were taught.

You could probably divide twitter’s staff right now into a few groups: (a) people who want to leave and will (if they’re not fired) but are hanging on for a payout (b) people who want to leave but can’t because of visas/family (c) a few who want to fight for it (d) Elon cultists.

I wish I could go on Twitter without people flooding the timeline with whining and over dramatizing things about Twitter.

It’s a social media site. We’ll all be fine. Life is so much bigger than these things.

Go hang out with your family or pet. Send a nice message to a friend.

I’ve spent more time inside the Twitter codebase than 99.9999% of humanity and folks, I literally don’t understand what it would mean to give someone a quick “tour” of “the Twitter code”

i love to update the operating system on my television. its so cool that there's another little computer in there which does nothing for me that i despise and have to take care of

When I retire someday I want to teach this class because:

1. It will be super fun
2. In the moment kids will hate it and not understand why this is so hard
3. Ten years after they'll (hopefully) say its the one CS class they still use everyday

Monday would be the perfect day for Google to announce that they're bringing Reader back from the dead.

Well @elonmusk now owns this place so here’s a warm welcome to him and his fans
https://t.co/eMpXNrdc46

Biggest issue with the Elon stans is that they don't actually love him for environmental reasons or because he's allegedly attempting to make humanity a multi planetary species.

It's because he's getting away with bad stuff and profiting, and they wish they could do the same.

So no, I don’t move seats for families unless it is literally I have to go up one row and I haven’t already put my stuff away in my specifically chosen seat so I can rest/do work in my office. Flying is expensive and exhausting for everyone. If you can’t plan ahead, fly Southwest

In light of everything happening at Twitter, a lot of people are wondering "where to go next". May I suggest, and I am speaking to myself here too, that you invest in your own blog on your own domain? Own your own content, and share your thoughts independently of dingaling CEOs.

"Blockchain" is the "essential oils" of tech bros.

the history of "social media" is the history of people inventing things that are strictly worse than livejournal

Europe but if Europe colonised it

Here it is: Twitter engineers were told today to *print out* their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself.

Then they were told wait, no, actually, please shred all that code you just printed out.

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