Two reasons why they has thousands of followers and you don’t:

Uniqueness
Consistent content

You are unique and have valuable perspective to offer. Once you tap into that, you’ll become more confident and comfortable with posting.

A few examples:

People follow @atrupar for his bite size video news updates. His summaries and commentary are always spot on. We expect that he’ll be covering important political news each day.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1290505690071662592?s=21 https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1290505690071662592

Sarafina @starstrickenSF is a scientist who engages in #SciComm and shares her personal journey as a BRCA2 previvor. Her page is all about breast cancer awareness, supernovae, and, of course, Comet.

https://twitter.com/starstrickensf/status/1289624964732084226?s=21 https://twitter.com/starstrickensf/status/1289624964732084226

“But Sarah, my field of study is very narrow and niche.”

GOOD.

You have tremendous opportunity to establish yourself as the person in your discipline. Look at @SolomonRDavid.

His page is fun and inclusive. He makes science exciting.

https://twitter.com/solomonrdavid/status/1289252212976177153?s=21 https://twitter.com/SolomonRDavid/status/1289252212976177153

Many scis do this on Twitter. I was so excited when I heard Sarah McAnulty on NPR last week. Composed this tweet but forgot to hit send:

“Just heard @SarahMackAttack on @NPR say ‘they should be popping bottles’ over squid science.”

Passionate scicommers are the best in #scicomm

All of the people on this thread so far have captured that uniqueness factor. Their accounts also are memorable because they’ve unknowingly tapped into the parasocial relationship phenomenon.

They are all Twitter pros.

Would you like some examples on newer accounts or those with smaller audiences?