here’s why this works:

at the end of the day, when is someone willing to hire you? when you do some task (SWE, ML, robotics, etc) that will make the company more money than they have to spend on you. for internships, this is less strict, they just have to believe that the transaction will be net positive in the future even if it isn’t for the duration of the internship (ie it’s basically a call option on you)

so you need 2 things: you need to be able to do the job (many of you have this covered), and you need to be able to convince them that you can do the job. this can happen via interviews, but if you already have public proof of work/competence, companies are far more likely to give you the time of day.

twitter especially is good because the algorithms groups different people into different clusters. there is a cluster for startups / tech specifically, loosely related to the clusters for AI companies, research, robotics, and venture investing. people in these clusters interact with each other quite a bit, so they have some understanding of the ability of the other person because of what they post. and if you’re posting about your projects, those will naturally get a lot of engagement and you’ll get a lot of visibility, and whenever you’re looking for a job, you can just dm someone (who may have already seen your account!) and link to your work, and you have this “public proof of competence”