And then THIS happened:
Substack cofounder Chris Best on Twitter’s actively blocking the service.
Yesterday, Twitter began to aggressively throttle any interactions with Substack. Apparently, according to journalist Matt Taibbi, Substack presents a clear and present danger to Twitter's business model, and you may not be able to share this newsletter as is in the future.
What does this mean? Well, it means that Twitter, increasingly paranoid and desperate for money, is going to try to squeeze every penny it can find, excluding competitors. How Substack deals with that is out of our hands.
What it also means, though, is that I'd encourage you to subscribe if you haven't already, and encourage others to do so, as an insurance policy against further madness at Twitter. We started this newsletter as a way to make sure we could reliably reach you, should Twitter and other social networks go absolutely crazy, and it looks like things are headed that way. Encourage your friends in the fandom to subscribe, and be sure WarriorNun.com is bookmarked in your browser as well.
This is also why you don’t see Twitter embeds in this newsletter any more, just links. Twitter is blocking it.
Now, onto some other Twitter helpful tips. We've been perusing Twitter's recommendation algorithm that they open sourced on March 31. Here's what we've learned so far.
Code exists that has penalties for tweeting links without any other text, as well as handles without any other text. These are common behaviors for spambots, so it's not surprising to find that in there. There is a penalty - minor, but it exists - for using more than one hashtag. We would still encourage you to use #SaveWarriorNun and #WarriorNun because despite the penalty, it helps services like Parrot Analytics detect demand.
There are stiffer penalties for offensive language, 6x heavier than the penalty for multiple hashtags, for a total reduction in visibility of 10x. There's no data in the code itself for what constitutes offensive language, so we just have to go on the fact that the code exists.
Now, let's talk what gets you seen. There's a minor boost for tweeting something that's trending. This is why the daily phrases have specific timing, to create trends where the same number of tweets in a larger timeframe would not.
But the big heavies?
Someone hitting the like button on your tweet increases the weight of the tweet by 30x. THIRTY TIMES.
Someone hitting retweet on your tweet? That's worth 20x.
So here's the simple recipe. You know the 15 to 15 - 15 daily retweets to get us to 15 million? Add one little step to that process: like the tweet as well as retweeting it. That's it. Like, retweet, next tweet in the results. That's what will help the most.
Please share and recommend this newsletter to fellow Halo Bearers!
Today's Data
Have you done your 15 likes & retweets?
All data below is as of 23:00 UTC-0.
There are 3407946 tweets remaining until SIMON 15M UPDATE
Today's a rest day but some folks are having fun with IN THIS CAKE OR THE NEXT.
Over the last two days, folks have done a great job tweeting and especially retweeting, bringing us to 45K per day. If we were to keep that pace daily, we would reach 15 million tweets in just 75 days.
We’ve earned 21 articles so far this week. Keep on clicking!
Your Attention Please
A reminder: One of the major aims of the campaign is to get more mainstream media coverage. Mainstream media publishers don’t care about retweets - they make their money on page views and even compensate writers based on how many people read their articles. The more we help them, the more they help cover us.
Please click on the link to these news articles and scroll to the bottom of each article. You don’t have to read it or hang out after you’ve scrolled to the bottom unless you want to.
👉 Empire Magazine June 2023 Issue feat. Warrior Nun (empireonline.com)
👉 Netflix Shows Cancelled Too Quickly From '1899' to 'Warrior Nun' (www.imdb.com)
👉 Twitter en révolte contre des annulations de séries queers
👉 Canceled Netflix Show Creator Urges Fans To Keep Fighting For Season 3 (screenrant.com)
Around the Fandom
This week's phrases:
https://twitter.com/Jereczko97/status/1641500753771614210
Vote for WN:
https://www.shortlist.com/lists/best-netflix-tv-shows-400054
New Halo project space:
https://twitter.com/sapphicinpain/status/1644007065726115841
There’s a birthday project and a donation drive to honor Lorena Andrea on her birthday! Let's make her feel loved and appreciated! Submit birthday messages, art, songs and donate to a good cause.
https://twitter.com/sapphicpov/status/1640461654843613184
We have a new giveaway! Drawing is April 13.
https://twitter.com/ktyselysium/status/1643006659277602816?s=20
Vote for William Miller's band:
https://twitter.com/WilliamMiller/status/1641842953134940161
Signal Boost
Some top posts that you might want to check out and reshare.
https://twitter.com/fernandogros/status/1644309865924378628
https://twitter.com/sapphic_maelle/status/1644081594649677824
https://twitter.com/blasphemusdeus/status/1644095747514572800
https://twitter.com/psychopathicgay/status/1644389080598183955
https://twitter.com/fleetinghalcyon/status/1644406509584134144
https://twitter.com/JamesThompsonKS/status/1644143340995346432
https://twitter.com/sister_OCS/status/1644113448245108739