Avalore Dump Week 37
"Deep timeline research" Edition
Hello again! I know what you’re thinking, “Smitty, I thought you said you were taking a break from Avalore, wtf is this??”
I said I MIGHT take a break. There are actually a few topics I’ve been meaning to write about for a while but haven’t had the chance.
As you probably realized, there’s not much news right now in the community sphere of the ecosystem, so it’s time to spin through some of my filler topics!
The first thing on my list was to do a review of the Twitter timelines of different crypto chains. Fun!
The AVAX Twitter account has been the subject of many discussions in the community, so I wanted to take some time and actually compare it to the accounts of some other projects. Let’s do it!
The Method
Wow!!!! Numbers!!!
Don’t worry your pretty little head about it, I’ll try to shield you guys from as many numbers as possible and distill the results down for you.
My process was pretty simple:
Read through the last 100 posts on the project timeline (including RTs)
Assess on a 0-1 scale if the post could be relevant to community like me
That’s it!
For the American Football enjoyers (yes I married a Brit so I have to call it “American” now, very annoying), it’s kind of similar to PFF and has some of the same flaws. Relevancy is obviously a subjective metric for example.
I was trying to be as loose with the relevancy rating as possible. Any tweet that could possibly be seen as relevant to a chunk of people on CT would earn a 1.
Just so we’re on the same page, here are some of the more borderline tweets that got marked as relevant:
Maybe someone is excited to use this new USDS token in DeFi! Personally I’m ride or die with USDC but you never know!
Maybe one of you is hyped to finally be able to trade $NUTP on chain!
So yeah, just stressing again how liberal I was with “relevant.” If it seemed like it could directly be about someone’s onchain experience, it’s relevant.
I also included any post about a meetup, conference, or hackathon as relevant. Maybe people are excited for those! Any sort of generic fluff or meme post was marked as relevant as well.
And of course, here are some examples of posts that were marked NOT relevant:
It would be fun to do this again with more stress on tweets that I personally find relevant, but then the metric just gets even more subjective, and there’s almost no chance I’m willing to read through the AVAX timeline again (foreshadowing).
Ok let’s look at the numbers!
The Numbers
Wow! An honest to goodness chart! Who saw that coming??
I got tired of this after doing it for 4 different chains, but I made it through the only 4 chains I’ve used this year so that seems pretty fair to me. Here are the actual numbers for the true nerds out there—the rest of you can shield your eyes and skip over the next image:
Ok! Interesting!
The elephant in the room is of course the AVAX account. You probably saw this coming if you’ve been following the chain and seen how business-focused it has been recently. Even the 38% relevancy here was carried HARD by RTs of different local Team1 chapter meetups.
Personally I have never really understood the reluctance to make the AVAX Twitter account targeted more towards Crypto Twitter, but over time I have been worn down to believe that all project accounts are run as LinkedIn pages. Turns out they are not!
It also flies in the face of the recent gaslighting campaign of “we can do both institutions and community, stop the theatrics!”
Yes, it’s possible they can do both, but clearly there is a large imbalance right now. I think it’s fair to say that a project’s Twitter account is a microcosm of the project, so that’s where we’re at right now.
The Others
Ok but that’s enough about AVAX! We are exploring multichain now! Let’s talk about some things that stood out about the other accounts.
They were all posting 75-85% of their tweets about things that are relevant to CT. They spend a lot of time highlighting real onchain experiences and the projects that provide them. This makes sense to me, but likely the AVAX team is making a conscious effort to move away from messaging targeted at crypto natives. Growing the pie!
One thing that stood out to me was that MegaETH RT’d a lot less than the other accounts. I actually like this, as it makes that account the only one I would ever consider turning notifications on for. They post much less frequently, but they have more substance and/or relevance.
Maybe it’s not a fair comparison because the MegaETH ecosystem is much younger and smaller than the others, so they have less of an opportunity to RT and obviously more of a focus on CT natives as they try to acquire users.
Base is not a small ecosystem though, and they still managed to have very high relevancy tweets—their RTs were mostly of projects that CT would be interested in. Seems good!
I think my final subjective ranking for these Twitters would be:
Mega → Base → → → Sol → → → → → → → → → AVAX
But who cares what I think! I am not a marketer! Just talking about how much they appeal to me. As we’ve discussed many times, likely the AVAX Twitter account is not intended to appeal to me.
That’s all for this week! Filler article idea #1 complete!
Next week will probably be about AVAX book club or something. If you haven’t heard, we’re reading the Red Rising series now. It’s one of my favorite books so if you are at all interested in SciFi you should pick it up!
We’re moving into our “hobby” era while we wait for things to do onchain. Maybe a new institution will come and give us something fun to do!
Tweet(s) of the Week
