The speaker says their early tweets were a personal exercise in expressing ideas concisely, rather than an attempt to gain followers.

“And at the time, it really wasn't to build like a Twitter follower- [laughs]... or anything. I was just like tweeting into the, like abyss. There was like... I have like, no followers.”

“These were like tweets for myself, and I was like practicing a little bit of like, how would I try to compress the idea that I have in as few words as possible. It was kind of like the personal test I had for myself.”