“I have grown my Twitter following a lot slower than a lot of people I've never gained you know 5,000 followers in a day from a great thread but I think the people that follow me the community the audience whatever you want to call it is a lot more compact and a lot more dense and a lot more valuable”

A small dense audience pays out far more than a viral one

Aaron rejected thread-bro and meme-driven growth tactics, accepting slower follower growth in exchange for an audience that follows him as a human. The payoff arrived at layoff time: job offers and would-be clients came from a smaller but high-trust following, not from raw follower count.