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Meme partnerships grew the Nancy Pelosi tracker to 100K followers
“So when we went from zero to around a 100,000 followers on Twitter, we worked with different meme accounts to kind of pump in that content into those channels. One shout out is Parikh Patel. So Parikh Patel, he's like a pseudo advisor investor for us.”
Michael Burry tracker converted 140K followers into 350 newsletter subscribers
“Without even tweeting about the Michael Burry tracker, we got up to 60 to 70,000 followers just from the traction from the Pelosi thing. We took the Michael Burry one, started tweeting about it, and now we're up to 131 140,000 followers on that. Spun off a new…”
Isenberg: Other social networks will ship as fast or faster than Twitter
“I actually think that a lot of other social networks are going to, you know, slowly start shipping at the pace if not faster than Twitter.”
Isenberg: StumbleUpon was once larger than both Reddit and Twitter
“I was at StumbleUpon and StumbleUpon was bigger than Reddit. And that's crazy. It's crazy to think it was bigger than Reddit and at one point bigger than Twitter.”
Butcher: Visualizing other creators' ideas unlocks distribution when they retweet it
“Finding ideas that other people had already kind of perfected, add some visual context. They retweet it. My network grows as a function of that.”
Smith: I was among the first 10,000 users on Twitter in 2006
“I remember being in the first 10,000 users in Twitter in 2006”
Urban: Twitter is flawed but excels at making high-quality connections
“Twitter sucks in a hundred ways, but like the, it's like really like fantastically great for like three or four really important things.”
Krishnan: The Reverse-Chronological Feed Debate Consumed Three Years at Twitter
“There's always been this controversy of only latest ranking, which by the way, took up three years of my life, which we can also talk about, ah, if you're interested.”
Melker: Would Choose Real Identity Over Anonymity If Starting Over Today
“I would be myself, without, without question. Although, like, I envy the guys who are anonymous to some degree because they're, I think it's just an easier way to interact with this particular community. I wouldn't change a thing because, like, I feel like eve…”
Isenberg: BoringMarketing.com started purely as an X account
“When we first started BoringMarketing.com you know, it was just a Twitter account where we talked about automating marketing with AI workflow and agents, and over time we built the business around it, but it literally started off as a X account.”
Isenberg: I read every X DM and reply to interesting ones
“I mean, my DMs are completely open. Anyone can message me, and I actually read all of my DMs. I don't get back to everyone, but I read everyone, and I get back to the most interesting ones.”
Isenberg: Only Uses Twitter While Actively Drinking Morning and Afternoon Coffee
“I only go on Twitter while I'm drinking coffee. I call it the coffee framework. So I drink a coffee in the morning, and a coffee in the afternoon. And while I'm drinking those coffees, like, I'm allowed to go on Twitter.”
Isenberg: Greathouse Fall's viral HustleGPT tweet hit a 45% retweet-to-like ratio
“I saw that your retweet to like ratio at the time was around 40%. And that's meaning like, if you had a hundred likes, you had 40 retweets. I think you actually had, I think it was around 45% even.”
Greathouse Fall: HustleGPT's viral social media success was completely unplanned
“That was not, I wasn't planning this. This was not like an engineered, like, oh, if I say this way, then it's going to go super viral and all that. It was like, I just had to follow along to my friends that I have on it, that I had on Twitter.”