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33 statements about Twitter in 22 sources, by upload date.

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2024

  • 2024-05-14 · A Week in My Life · Vlog — Ali says scaling his business gives the option of hiring a ghostwriter for Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram; he has dabbled with it over the years, but for now it feels too inauthentic. — 00:02:44

2020

  • 2020-03-13 · The KEY Study Techniques for Exam Success — recommendation: Simon Clark turned off most phone notifications, including all Facebook, Twitter and Instagram ones, and is on Twitter far less since he removed its notifications. — 00:05:21
  • 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali publicly thanks Thomas Frank for changing his life: on a Skype call around September 2019 Frank introduced him to Standard, the YouTube agency Ali is now part of. — 00:06:34
  • 2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali scrolls Instagram and Twitter at random during the day; he is trying to do less of it, but it always ends up happening. — 00:03:53
  • 2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali says that after work he usually ends up on the sofa scrolling Twitter and Instagram for an annoyingly long time instead of working out. — 00:05:50
  • 2020-06-10 (said on 2020-06-01, implied) · Music, Reading and Note-Taking - Productive Day in the Life — Ali: Browsing Twitter, Ali falls into reading articles and watching videos about the Black Lives Matter protests, tweets and retweets, wonders what more he could do with his platform to help, and feels depressed about it for an hour. — 00:04:30
  • 2020-06-17 · How To Boost Productivity Without Apps — recommendation: Ali keeps only useful apps such as Notion, Drafts, Castro, Audible and Anki on his iPhone's first screen; Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and dating apps, the infinity pools, sit on the second screen. — 00:02:26
  • 2020-06-21 · A HUGE Unboxing Day — Ali: On a lockdown day off Ali gets up at 8.55 a.m. because he has scheduled a podcast recording at 9 a.m., a trick he sometimes uses to force himself to wake up instead of browsing Twitter in bed for hours. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-08-11 · Study with Me - Hustle & Chill — Ali: At 5 p.m. Ali spends half an hour on the sofa scrolling Twitter, until he remembers he is a productivity guru who would get kicked off YouTube. (playful) — 00:04:19
  • 2020-09-01 · Gymshark, Inspirations & Pet Peeves - ONE MILLION Subscribers Q&A — recommendation: Ali would also have turned each video into a tweet storm, a series of Twitter threads. — 00:02:33
  • 2020-09-01 · Gymshark, Inspirations & Pet Peeves - ONE MILLION Subscribers Q&A — Ali: Thomas Frank changed Ali's life most directly: in October 2019 he introduced Ali to Standard, the agency Ali is now part of. — 00:07:37
  • 2020-09-18 · The 5 Magical Apps That Changed My Life — Ali reads many books, browses many articles, listens to a lot of podcasts and scrolls Twitter, but until recently he had no way of logging the insights he came across. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-09-18 · The 5 Magical Apps That Changed My Life — Ali: Readwise has recently added tweets: sending a tweet or thread to the Readwise Twitter account saves it into Readwise. — 00:05:26
  • 2020-10-04 · My BIGGEST Rejections in Life — Ali: On the train home Ali saw "copyright 2008" on the laptop: in 2012 he had been sold an obsolete four-year-old MacBook Air by a man who said he worked at Twitter. — 00:14:48
  • 2020-11-11 · A Productive Day on Vacation in the Canary Islands — Ali starts the day on the hotel balcony with an espresso and his iPad, doing his morning dump, planning his day and scrolling through Twitter. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-11-11 · A Productive Day on Vacation in the Canary Islands — announcement: Ali has not mentioned the Part-Time YouTuber Academy on YouTube before, only on Twitter and his mailing list; its next cohort is in February 2021. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-11-24 (said on 2020-11-20, implied) · A "Productive" Day in my Life (Lockdown) — Ali: After journaling, Ali makes what he calls the mistake of checking Twitter and falls into the "dopamine hit rabbit hole" of mentions, replies and aimless scrolling until he gets up at 9.15. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: With the iPad Air at his bedside, Ali types night-time ideas into Notion or Drafts, and in the morning does his journaling, plans his day or scrolls Twitter without getting up. — 00:15:24
  • 2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: Over the past few years Ali has become friends with many other creators through YouTube, Twitter and Instagram. — 00:08:58
  • 2020-12-16 · How Twitter Changed my Life #Shorts — Ali says he has had phases of taking Twitter seriously for two weeks at a time, and every time really good things have happened. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-12-16 · How Twitter Changed my Life #Shorts — Ali: Around September 2019, after his brother, big into tech Twitter, told him Twitter would change his life, Ali got on Twitter and started replying to tweets of Thomas Frank and Sarah Dietschy, people he knew through YouTube. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-12-16 · How Twitter Changed my Life #Shorts — Ali: Thomas Frank followed Ali almost at once; Ali messaged him a question about sponsorships, and Frank got on a two-hour Skype call with him and introduced him to the agency Ali is now part of, which Ali says completely changed his life. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-12-16 · How Twitter Changed my Life #Shorts — Ali's point: replying a few times to someone on Twitter can lead to life-changing connections, as just replying to Thomas Frank's tweets led to his agency. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-12-16 · How Twitter Changed my Life #Shorts — Ali: When Sarah Dietschy tweeted that she wanted to go on podcasts with more than 30 downloads, Ali contacted her; she joined him and his brother on their podcast, and a few weeks ago he was on hers. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: Unsure whether an income video was in poor taste during the pandemic, Ali polled Twitter, Instagram and YouTube; in all three about 85% said he should post it. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: Towards the end of 2019 Ali joined Standard, an agency of about 100 educational creators including Simon Clark, MedLife Crisis, LegalEagle and Wendover Productions; Thomas Frank introduced him. — 00:29:53

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Also named in: Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal