If you go on YouTube and go back to the official trailer drops for Star Wars: Rogue One, you'll see a bunch of comments from people confused about where it fits into the timeline and where Rey and Finn and Poe are.

Included in these comment threads are speculation that Disney hadn't liked the response to The Force Awakens and had scrapped the sequel trilogy, etc.

I saw some similar user reviews from people who went into the movie thinking they were seeing a sequel to Episode 7 and were surprised/disappointed/confused that it wasn't.

To a lot of people reading these tweets, this must seem amazing. How could somebody be so into Star Wars and yet have missed all the publicity and articles about the plans for the "Star Wars Story" side movies, etc?

But to me, the more amazing thing here is: not even Disney has figured out a way to reach "the public". Not even Disney has cracked the code on reaching 100% messaging saturation and letting everyone in on their plans.

I'm bringing this up today because I'm seeing person after person talking about Twitter having changed the QT/RT system "without warning or explanation"...

And Twitter has been talking about this for weeks. I've seen so many articles and tweets.

It's true they didn't do one of their animated splash page introduction things to walk us all through it, but I suspect they have found those things cause more aggravation than illumination.

My point in pointing out that Twitter did tell us what they were doing isn't to go, "What, were you living under a rock?"

I'm just pointing out an important quirk of 21st century communication.

This is something that is important for creatives on social media to know about.

"How much can I promote my own stuff before it becomes annoying to my followers?" is the wrong question.

"...before my followers notice?" is a better question.

I have a bot on my Twitter account that a couple times a day tweets out a link to my Patreon or a tip jar or a book. It has some random variation but not a bunch. I really recommend something similar to anyone else selling their work on Twitter.

(I use https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/ )