Storytime #3: How a Handshake Deal with Twitter Led to Millions of Video Views

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Big Enough Book | Common Craft | Making Media | Storytime

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July 07, 2021

I write books and run a company called Common Craft. I recently moved from Seattle to a rural island. Here, I write about online business, book publishing, modern home construction, and occasionally, dumb jokes.

Storytime is a series of videos that are usually brief and focused on a single idea relating to my work and/or personal life. This episode is about how our video “Twitter in Plain English” ended up on the front page of Twitter.com for over a year. The full version of this story in my book Big Enough.

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