i don't know anyone who has tens of thousands of followers on twitter and is unambiguously happy about it. i don't know anyone who has gone viral and had an unambiguously positive experience. i have never personally created something with the escape velocity to break out of my circle of influence into unknown places and didn't get tugged at by an instinct to pull the plug while that's still an option. a lot of people online are trying to catch a bullet train with a bug net and have no plan for what to do if they succeed.
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in reply to @Webster's post:
I think a LOT about the Adam Ragusea video about Jani Lane.
"If you make anything that courts a mass audience, you are a dog chasing a mail truck, and you best be ready to actually catch it."
I had 15k on Twitter when I left and you're correct. Like I did have some good times and meet some cool people, but it was brain-breaking the amount of casual verbal abuse that came with it.
(Also, no money. Not that I tried very hard, I have a decent day job... but for writing for years to an audience of thousands I got, like, $50 from some ad company once.)
I remember when a tweet I made as a comment to another started getting a lot of angry replies, and I felt my blood run cold. It wasnt even viral but I realized that an uncomfortable amount of people were suddenly aware of me and I hated it!!
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