Totally off topic: I don't get (grok) twitter. The conversation escapes me. I'm more of a long form writer. When I start blogging again, I'll do my own thing vs sharecropping.
Long-form twitter is actually a thing! You just keep replying to yourself and removing your name to create a gigantic stream of consciousness - unsightly perhaps, but I personally enjoy quality tweeters that do this. Most of the tweeters I enjoy just write aphorisms though.
The bedrock of twitter is in finding and following non-noisy tweeters that are similar thinkers to yourself. I'm @sebinsua on there. I can vouch for accounts like @afoolswisdom, @macroresilience, @asquidislove, @pmarca, @EpicureanDeal, and @groditi. These are people that I recognise to be unusual and phenomenally smart, and that I admire from a distance.
You have to look, talk, and act like the people you want to interact with. Dress the part. Homophily.
Last week I put on my politician costume, headed to the legislature, talked policy, asked for votes, and played the role.
The following day I put on my bike commuter costume, laptop camped with my fellow programmers, and wrote code.
Whenever we have planning meetings, I dress up, so that I'm taken more seriously.
You absolutely judge others by their appearances. Why would it be any different for you?