Ever wonder how it is an “influencer” on X with over a million “followers” influences nowhere else?
If an X influencer is influential, why aren’t they influential anywhere else other than on X?
Sure, celebs start somewhere else and have a slot on X, Instagram, Faceook, but Twitter influencers do not. So does Elon and Trump – but X influencers who come from X pretty much stay there.
Why?
How can some hot looking chick, with a cartoon portrait (no DMs, I’m married! – she actually posts that) have a million Twitter followers and yet zero influence on LinkedIn, zero on Instagram, zero on Substack, zero on Facebook, zero on Tik Tok, never on TV, never interviewed, has never published a piece longer than a hundred words?
Well this week we learned why – as you see in this post – she may have a very colorful history. And when we see her real photo, in the same post, there is no reason to stop DMs.
https://x.com/GenXGirl1994/status/1912849522813714579
So “Insurrection Barbie” has quite a background – and over a million followers? Really? Defiyantly Free because she is not in jail – although the spelling is a challenge,
If one is an influencer – with millions of followers – on Twitter, why aren’t you automatically a player in Substack, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok?
Does your message influence or is your talent click baiting?
Could it be that to communicate in 200 characters is fundamentally different from speaking, from writing an essay?
Could it be that X is almost all a phone app – take a quick look at a couple of sentences and react instantly.
Are Xers masters of the scrawl in a few characters – capturing the moment – and communicating with others in the same mind frame?
Does that have influence?
Is a follower a follower or a click that says “I like that comment and want to see more like it.”
As soon as the format changes – particularly with long sentences necessary for complete thoughts – influencers should effortlessly move from the X variety to the Substack variety – but they don’t.
There are no, or certainly few, Substackers with tens of thousands of readers (not followers) who are leaders on Twitter.
It’s a different planet to have 20 or 30 thousand subscribers to a weekly newsletter – you may actually have to read more than 3 sentences. It’s not easy to read 1,350 words from a phone in the checkout line at Starbucks.
There are not many “million follower influencers” on X who have large Substack followings – unless they were pretty famous at the outset.
Years go, on LinkedIn, when people bragged about their large number of followers, I made the point – ask your followers to send you $1.
One dollar for your content – and you will quickly see you have no followers because a click is not a commitment, a click is not a supporter you can bring along to do something you would like them to do.
If your “follower” won’t send you a buck, they aren’t a follower – they are a swipe right.
Here’s a live one on Twitter – X. This chick lost her food stamps, although it does not appear she missed a meal, and asked her 200,000 “followers” to send her 50 cents!
https://x.com/OneBadDude_/status/1913911030683496762
It does not appear she got the dough.
This is the nonsense about “followers.” They accumulate like people do for a car wreck – but that never translates into anyone doing what the X influencer tells them to do.
How can you be influential on X but not in the world in general?
How can someone be influential and nobody outside of Twitter ever heard of you?
On Substack for instance, people pay for your thoughts. $8 a month times a few thousand followers and you indeed have a bit of influence.
On Twitter, you may have a million followers not one of whom gives you a dollar – who is more influential?
Twitter is not so much the town square as it is the lavatory wall where people can scratch out a quick thought – often anonymously – for others to see in a flushing moment.
Our girl Insurrection Barbie comes to mind.
Is that influence?
Spend time on Twitter and you see patterns emerge – algorithms like on Tik Tok take you to content in which you have shown some interest.
Ping on 5 or 6 rescue dog posts and you will see 100 more – both on TikTok and X.
I like rescue dogs so that’s pretty nice – although none of the dogs claims to be an influencer.
The political stuff gets you to the unserious – Lindell TV reporters, about every type of conspiracy – read about the hidden columns under the Great Pyramids lately?
Perhaps influencers who gain a million followers only where scratches are limited to about 200 characters are not influencing anyone – they are masters of a minimalist communication form.
Are Substack “best sellers” more influential because they have tens of thousands of dollars coming their way from paid subscriptions – a month?
Are Facebook groups with 250,001 members more influential than an X account with 250,000 followers?
For sure, if your influence is limited to a platform, you are not an influencer at all, more of a popular figure at that particular corner tavern.
Perhaps instead of “influencer” on X we may want to call them Click Gravity Centers – or maybe just Clickmasters.
This week we found out they can be bought – as this Eric guy admitted, sheepishly:
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1903854458376757394
So for clicksters like Insurrection Barbie, it’s a place to maybe become a thing again after your earlier careers tanked.
https://x.com/GenXGirl1994/status/1912849522813714579
Brian Ference 
has been investigating one of the influencers – a guy named Scott Presler who has quite a following.Brian Ference
While Brian uncovered fascinating data about Presler being a grifter, he hit upon something else – the vast accumulation of “followers” for people who appear to be asking the hard questions, but within guardrails.t
In election fraud, which we know a bit about – “followers” become huge numbers if you deny election fraud – and if you are a leader – someone who changes the trajectory of election fraud investigation – Peter Bernegger comes to mind – your followers are nowhere near what they are for those living inside the guardrails.
While Brian uncovered fascinating data about Presler being a grifter, he hit upon something else – the vast accumulation of “followers” for people who appear to be asking the hard questions, but within guardrails.
There appears to be a thumb on the scale – and Brian is the first guy to identify it.