How I failed to create an audience twice (and succeeded the third time)

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It all started one year ago

I was following @andres_vidoza on Instagram and I liked how he was documenting his web development journey

So I thought "I can do this too"

The next day I took a photo of my laptop while I was coding and talked a bit about what I learned that day under it

After one hour only 10 people saw it but nobody liked it

I was ok with that and I continued posting

After 2-3 weeks of posting every day I was getting 5 likes at most on each post I made but I wasn't enjoying that at all

I hated taking pictures. I only wanted to code and then write about what I learned

So I slowly became very inconsistent until I stopped posting

At that time I also discovered Twitter

After a few weeks of lurking, I decided to give it a try

So one day I announced that I'm doing the 100 Days of Code challenge

I did that for almost 2 months and nobody was seeing my posts

I gained less than 100 followers in 2 months which made me really unmotivated

Now when I look back I realize that the way I was formatting my tweets was really bad

Lots of hashtags, no white spaces

So as you probably guessed after those 2 months I quit Twitter too

It was the beginning of September 2020 at that time and school was about to start so I stopped coding too

Then somewhere around the 1st of October, I read an article from @catalinmpit

He was talking about how important an online presence is for a developer

That article motivated me to start tweeting again

So I made that public once again and I also bought a Twitter course...

(will talk more about this later)

One week went by and I started to fall in love with it

I saw that as I was applying the learnings from that course my tweets were getting more and more likes

A few months later of tweeting every day I hit 1000 followers

From there everything got a lot easier

All I did was follow what I learned in that course and post tweets every day

And here we are now

After 2 failures and 6 months of hard work, I managed to build an amazing audience of 18,000+ people

So, what can you learn from this story?

Find the platform that works the best for you
Create a schedule and post something everyday
Get a growth course to speed up the process
Stay consistent for at least 3 months

Btw, this is the Twitter course I was talking about

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https://gumroad.com/a/886314099

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Top comments (7)

Emmanuel C. Ngowi • Jul 2 '21

Wow Pasca there are wonderful tips, I moved my account from 0 followers to 26 just because of posting and engaging with other developers in twitter, I'm still looking forward to reach my first hundred, thousand, and million followers in the near future.