Mikio L. Braun

ML and AI expert

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So a thread 🧵 on my favorite #twittermoments. When Twitter started, people in Germany were like „what‘s the point, why should I tweet what I‘m eating?!“ Instagram didn‘t exist back then. If only they knew.
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So I made an account because I made an account everywhere in those days (even posterous! Who remembers those). I didn‘t even know what for. I shared random updates.
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For some reason people started following me, so it became a bit less private and more about machine learning.
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The first person I met in real life after talking to them on Twitter was @ChrisDiehl. That was pretty fun, and I thought, wow, what an odd thing, but it works.
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Probably the biggest increase in followers came from O‘Reilly putting me on their featured speakers carousel for one of their conferences. That were like 100 new followers per week!
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When I started at @ZalandoTech I must admit I was a bit full of myself after realizing that nobody there had more followers than me 😅
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No #twitterretrospective would be complete without mentioning TWIMPACT/streamdrill. Working off the sprinkler feed we were doing trend analysis and saw how major and minor events left their mark on Twitter. Pretty impressive stuff.
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For the past few years my follower numbers levelled out, but I came here every day. It was my main source for news and seeing what‘s happening in my ML/DS/AI corner of the world. So it was a good run, maybe it will continue but given the damage that has been done, let‘s see. 🫡
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