Twitter

“I didn't have a following when I started indie hackers. I had, Maybe 400 followers on Twitter, mostly friends, family, colleagues, and stuff from work. I've been in the tech industry for a while, but I just didn't have an audience.”

“I would say I am bullish on this, actually. I don't like it. I think I would pay for people's tweets. I think it's a smart move by Twitter. I think that with the trends between Patreon and Substack and Twitter reaching the point where it has nearly everybody, …”

“My prediction is Clubhouse will be done. I know they have this amazing valuation right now, and I say amazing, what is it, billions of dollars, but it's just, for me, it's this typical Silicon Valley FOMO investor thing of everybody wants a piece of it now bec…”

“There's a there's a popular indie hacker. I won't say who it is. He has more than 40,000 followers on Twitter and his Twitter account is entirely automated. He never tweets. He doesn't even know what he's tweeting. There's a team of people who tweet for him an…”

“Building on Twitter or building on other platforms, it's like, okay, these guys can shift the ground from under my feet. That's really, that's a really high risk.”

“Now I feel like those are the things that I care about the most and they're going to go away in favor of people all the time.”

“My honest to God view on this, and it may be deeply cynical, is that I think what has happened, the reason why there's so much heat and so much drama around this is because Two journalists, Twitter's very, very important, and they had a very special status und…”

“Like if you look at our niche, like kind of like indie hackers, bootstrap founders, like there's not that many places where we launch bootstrap Products. You know, it's like Hacker News, Twitter, our own email list, product hunt. There's like only like a few. …”

“The followers you get from a viral tweet... They don't follow you for your content. They follow you because somebody else kind of likes you. These people are so much easy to churn. Like they will very likely unfollow you because you're not the right person the…”

“Every day I spend at least like half an hour actively contributing to other people's conversations. And that has been my only engagement strategy. I don't do like follow for follow or I don't do like weird giveaways like every day or these weird things where y…”

“Do I think it's likely to outcompete Twitter? No. I think Elon is more likely to ruin Twitter himself than Threads is to outcompete.”

“The Mastodon is not it. This is just not going to happen. There's just no way.”

“Rebranding it to X, I think is, is a terrible business decision.”

“I actually think probably more businesses make more money on Instagram and on Pinterest than on Twitter. Like, I never think they managed to really in a meaningful way monetize that.”

“I think that Twitter might change hands again in 20, 24. That is probably the ultimate prediction.”

“Sure, because these numbers, this is the thing with vanity metrics, and I'm gonna say YouTube subscribers are vanity metrics, more so, like, email subscribers are, like, not vanity metrics, right? Unless you're, if your open rate's really low, whatever, certai…”

“Not a week goes by, literally not a week, sometimes it's more than that, that I don't see someone on Twitter, or YouTube, Reddit, Hacker News, claiming a concept, or even not claiming it, but not crediting a concept that's pretty well-defined, that either I in…”

“The second prediction I want to touch on is I predicted that Twitter changes hands in twenty-twenty-four, question mark? And I don't know about you, but does it feel like the writing's on the wall? That Twitter is gonna be snapped up by someone at a deep disco…”

“This is why I say build your network, not your audience, because that network is so much more valuable than 10,000 people on, on x Twitter following you. Having five people that you can integrate with or co-promote or get in front of their audience is worth fi…”

“This is Shopify, Twitter, Facebook. I'm sure there are more that I could pontificate about. I'm naming these because they have Completely decimated companies that we've heard about or that I've invested in.”

“Twitter changes hands in 2024 question mark. No, it did not. That is a fail, but I think it will be true here coming up.”

“My first is that Twitter will change hands in twenty-twenty-five. I think either the debt's gonna be called due, someone's gonna do a hostile takeover. The valuation is so low, I just think it is inevitable that Twitter will change hands here at some point, an…”

“If you look at like, you know, per thousand views, what gets paid the most, it's actually bloggers. It's not even close. It's like four X more than YouTube. It's more, it's much more than TikTok and much more than Twitter.”

“The ownership shifted in an internal transaction because Elon Musk's AI company, XAI, acquired Twitter in an all stock deal valued at forty five billion dollars.”

“All the platforms are penalizing outbound links. You know, I think ex-Twitter has gotten a lot of, took a lot of heat for this, like, Elon did this thing that's like, what, now everyone has to post the link in the comments below, but the truth is, like, they'r…”