{"id":55904,"date":"2021-03-08T09:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T09:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=55904"},"modified":"2021-03-08T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T15:56:38","slug":"the-power-of-a-thread-or-two-and-a-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/03\/08\/the-power-of-a-thread-or-two-and-a-request\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of a thread, or two, and a request"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week ago I noted that I had reached 70,000 Twitter<\/a> followers, that number having increased by 10,000 over the previous ten months.<\/p>\n

Today I can note that in the last week that number has gone up to 77,000 followers, which I admit seems quite extraordinary.<\/p>\n

Two threads have been primarily responsible for this. The first was on the national debt<\/a>, published last Tuesday, and that on the nurses\u2019 pay dispute<\/a>, published on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The one on the national debt has now reached 1.6 million people, with 129,000 interactions, \u00a09,500 likes \u00a0and 5,800 retweets.<\/p>\n

That on nurses\u2019 pay is not as impressive, in comparison, but still reached 306,000 people, with 26,000 interactions.<\/p>\n

They follow in a pattern of writing long threads that I only developed last year, and which I have not seen others using, although I am sure they do. The threads are of up to 3,000 words, and so more than 80 tweets long. I am astonished that this does not seem to put people on Twitter off, and most do not use Threadreader.<\/p>\n

The current list of threads looks something like this (all have been posted here, where they tend to not be as popular).<\/p>\n

The history and significance of QE in the UK<\/a><\/p>\n

QE and funding the Green New Deal<\/a><\/p>\n

How to find \u00a350 billion<\/a><\/p>\n

Macroeconomics, money and post-Brexit recovery<\/a><\/p>\n

Why we don't need to repay the national debt\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Why we need tax increases now - and matching tax cuts<\/a><\/p>\n

The national debt paranoia<\/a><\/p>\n

The nurses' pay dispute and what we value in society<\/a><\/p>\n

This, which was not a Twitter thread, I would also add to the list:<\/p>\n

How to use local and hypothecated bond issues to fund the recovery<\/a><\/p>\n

I note this to raise a question. I have been asked by a number of people if they might turn the threads into PDFs so that they might share them more easily. That has persuaded me to think about this. I did so at Christmas, but have simply not had time to do much about this since, and in the meantime the number of threads has grown.<\/p>\n

In principle these threads could be a book, but I am not sure that they flow as such. They are, instead, more like a collection around a theme. I could create that collection in Word, but I suspect it could be done better than I have the time or ability to do. There is no intention to formally publish and sell this, but instead to make it available as a download for those who want to read about the issues I touch on. But that needs help with design.<\/p>\n

As I do for videos, I have a budget for this, made available out of donations. But before I look elsewhere is there anyone here with the requisite skills who might like to discuss this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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