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Re:How to Promote Your Business for Free on HN, Apparently by olivierduval on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:32AM (#37763656)
> "6. Repeat this once a day"

Seriously ??????

Moreover, it's not just any business that can be promoted here as far as I can tell: it has to be "innovative" in some way... you can't just promote your dad's store here

Re:How to Promote Your Business for Free on HN, Apparently by Hasnep on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:38AM (#37763706)
I thought this was supposed to be ironic until I read the replies.
Re:How to Promote Your Business for Free on HN, Apparently by imjonse on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:51AM (#37763830)
It's from the CEO of a 'web3 design agency' as per the Twitter bio. I would expect nothing less from such a person.
Re:How to Promote Your Business for Free on HN, Apparently by lionkor on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:39AM (#37763721)
Wow X is low value conversation
Re:How to Promote Your Business for Free on HN, Apparently by dncornholio on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:43AM (#37763763)
I puked inside my mouth. From ending every tweet with an emoticon to telling people to use another description to not spam. Also telling people to get users to your platform by making a (unpaid) job posting on LinkedIn for Beta tester. Then the overly positive reactions.
Re:How to Promote Your Business for Free on HN, Apparently by catapart on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:50AM (#37763816)
Pro-tip: stay logged out and you will only ever be able to see the single linked post (due to elon's platform restricting).

Bonus - if you stay logged out, you won't validate the existence of twitter.com

Re:How to Promote Your Business for Free on HN, Apparently by whynotmaybe on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:59AM (#37763894)
Pro-pro-tip, if you're always logged out, you can delete your account, like I did.
Re:How to Promote Your Business for Free on HN, Apparently by catapart on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:28AM (#37778343)
If my account gets deleted for disuse, then they had to do it. If it stays active forever, because they never get around to it, then they have to host it. Either way, I get no benefit from that action that isn't benefited further from inaction.
Re:How to Promote Your Business for Free on HN, Apparently by nasir on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:58AM (#37763880)
I wonder if this is AI generated including the engagements. The responses seem so out of touch I can't decide all were typed in.
Re:How to Promote Your Business for Free on HN, Apparently by S_Pineapple on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @08:08AM (#37763978)
Reading the replies that she gives to comments on her post make me just want to vomit. It is hard to believe that this is someone being genuine rather than satire. Her suggestion to make sure this 'tactic' is not spam, is to simply change the post title on a daily basis so that it might subvert spam detection. To comments that are disparaging her tactic and suggesting that one shouldn't spam HN, she just replies with thumbs up or the peace sign emoji. Absolutely incredible.
Re:How to Promote Your Business for Free on HN, Apparently by skmurphy on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:47PM (#37768932)
Guidelines for Show HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html are pretty clear that most of what is suggested in the tweet thread is out of bounds