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You're correct, but the wording is the kind of cheap, buzzwordy advice that we regularly see online. The post literally opens up with "I want to cross-pollinate a tweetstorm on lessons I’ve learned..." Instead of spending so much time on the headline, he could have spent some more spellchecking.

Don't get me wrong, a good title will draw me in, but the content better match my expectation if I am to come back for another post.




Certainly. I might have written, "A good title is necessary, but not sufficient. But still necessary! So don't neglect it."

But then again, that might not get as many retweets as, "Titles are 80% of the work." Popularity is merciless and entirely orthogonal to quality.




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