Which EAs should be bigger on Twitter? Upvote those who are top priorities.

Peter Wildeford is an A+ follow on Twitter IMHO. I think it's realistic to get him a bunch more followers if that's something he wanted.

Luisa Rodriguez

Luisa is a x-risk expert, who contributed heavily to Will’s book. She is a good conversationalist. Seems like she could easily be sent to do the podcast circuit and end up with 20k followers.

She seems a clear candidate for “public intellectual”

Habiba Islam

Habiba is a very talented advisor, a model community member and is very winsome. (Full disclosure, we're friends.) I don't really know how to make her expertise legible enough that she could justify a 200k account, but I think that in a better world she would have a much larger presence.

Nathan -- If you compile a list of EAs worth promoting on Twitter, and DM me the list of their Twitter handles, I'm happy to mention them to my 124k followers. 

Amanda Askell consistently has thoughtful and underrated takes on Twitter.

Holly Elmore

Holly is an expert in her field, is honest and kind. I would like to see her with 30k followers. I don't see any super easy way to bootstrap that though.

I'm a little surprised that Rob Wiblin doesn't have more followers, but he's already high-profile enough that it wouldn't take that big of a push to get him into another tier. He's also the most logical person to leverage 80K's broader content on social media given his existing profile and activity. (ETA: although Habiba could do this too, per your suggestion.)

Dustin Moskovitz

I am uncertain if it's good that Dustin is rapidly becoming more legible on twitter, but since SBF is becoming waaay more legible, I think it's good that Dustin is too. Dustin tweets a lot and is pretty funny. I imagine he'll hate the idea of actual publicity, be if he didn't, I'd want him to have like 100k - 1m followers.

Will MacAskill

Twitter is the platform of elites.  Will’s content shares well and  i’d like more people to see it.  Will probably doesn’t want to the  anxiety from being on twitter all day, but I think he could be firewalled from much of that.

Will has like 50k followers. I think by employing a social media manager for $100k  he could have 200k followers in a year (60%).

Twitter downsides:

• causes anxiety
• takes up mental real estate in these people’s heads
• being dogpiled is horrible

But I think Twitter is just very high leverage in terms of networking and changing minds. And we want to change minds, right?

Holden Karnofsky

Holden (as far as I know) doesn't use twitter. Seems trivial for him to make an account, tweet new posts and nothing else. He'd probably get like 10k followers that way. 

While we see Holden's cold takes, I'm not sure he has the desire to post his hot ones. 

I think it would cost about $50k to get his account to 10k followers in a year (80%)

$100k for 50k followers, (60%) with more podcast  appearances.

Chana Messinger

Chana is clever, funny and responsible. I don’t know how to frame her as a larger twitter account, but I think she should be one.

Nuño Sempere - https://twitter.com/NunoSempere

I think there is a risk to empowering the hot takes, forcasting crowd (of which I'm partially one), but I think if Nuño can be branded as not necessarily the mainstream view in EA, I’d like to see his thoughts getting much more attention.

@Kat_Woods

Carrick Flynn

I don't know if Carrick plans to do more political runs in future, but if he does probably more followers would be valuable to him.

In light of the two-factor voting, I'm unclear what you mean by "upvote." I would suggest using the "agree/disagree" box as the scoring, with "upvote/downvote" meant to refer to your wisdom in suggesting the person and/or the analysis you provided. But I think you should clarify which one you intend to actually pay attention to.

In my experience, most people (~75%) become their worst selves on Twitter. Many times I have followed someone because I enjoyed their writing off Twitter, only to find that a significant portion of their Twitter content was angry culture-warring. So I think someone being interesting and thoughtful is not enough to make them a good Twitter poster, and using Twitter seems to be net negative for a lot of people.

I assume you're being modest in not suggesting "Nathan Young," so I'll do it for you.

Cari Tuna

I am both uncomfortable including Cari (because I sense she deliberately doesn't engage heavily with EA publicly) and uncomfortable excluding her (I think her impact is already underrated by EA discourse). I assume there is some reason she's not more active on twitter, but the interview she gave in 2015?? was really good and I sense she'd be a great public figure if she wanted to be. 

I think with a few interviews that would be  easy to get and maybe $50k in staff you could get her account to 20k in a  year (60%)

Julian Hazell, aka @HuelHater, posts some pretty funny EA jokes and memes on Twitter.  His substack is here: https://hazell.substack.com/

Toby Ord

Yes, Toby is a big deal, but could he be on documentaries. Would we want that? Certainly seems feasible to imagine him having more twitter followers. Unlike some of the big names here, I don't see a quick way to do that.

We shouldn't limit to Twitter, but what Youtube channels, Instagrams and more we should follow to increase their reach and learn from them