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Sherman Alexie's avatar

As a longtime resident of Book World, I just saw Twitter making public the literary careerism, nepotism, capitalism, raging jealousy, and corruption that had always remained far more private.

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Tana Ganeva's avatar

You blasted off with a gazillion followers though. I have to build my substack incrementally. I know I have a good product based on high conversation and low churn rates, but with the exception of the occasional viral post at most I get one to two paid subs per post. They almost always come from Twitter. I don't even bother posting on FB anymore because I get no engagement. I don't think the end of Twitter would be the end of writing. Probably it'll improve people's writing not to doom scroll and bicker all day. And hopefully people can work together for a better way to promote their work.

But I wouldn't dismiss people's concern as just wanting to be part of online "media in group."

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