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>> Now I use an email mailing list, and 100% of the people who want to see 100% of the things I send. I totally agree that you should have a direct channel (em

>> Now I use an email mailing list, and 100% of the people who want to see 100% of the things I send. I totally agree that you should have a direct channel (email) to your internet friends. I think what Twitter can offer is to let new people discover you. Email lists don't grow that way on their own (people won't really forward your email to their friends, but they retweet your tweets and so their friends find you).

sneak 6y ago
The vast majority of my email list is strangers who signed up on my website, after they got linked to something I wrote. That is to say, people don't sign up for my emails because of my emails, they sign up for my emails because of my website. I'm yet to actually send a single email, but I will probably start soon as I have some cool things to announce. I got to 25% of my Twitter numbers (after 12 years on Twitter) within only a year or two of writing consistently on my own site. By those figures, I am discovered and followed more and faster on my own site than I ever was on Twitter. YMMV, of course.