Twitter

includes Twitter Friend Finder, Twitter Ads, Twitter Spaces

70 statements across 56 episodes · 26 bullish · 10 bearish · 56 people on the record · first statement Jan 28, 2016 by Kelvin Lockwood · said 466 times in 258 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Everything said about Twitter, oldest first

Jan 28, 2016
Assertion Supported
Lockwood: Google Makes Up to $50 Per User Annually, Facebook $12–$18
“I think, ah, Google make as much as, like, 50 bucks a year per user. Facebook it was around about, sort of, 12, 18 maybe. Twitter a bit smaller.”
Kelvin Lockwood Jan 28, 2016 ▶ 9:56 Getting 1m Users Fast with Kelvin Lockwood
Mar 4, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moran: Spent about $2,000 weekly for six weeks on ad campaigns
“We probably did... We did about 2000 a week. For six weeks.”
Siobhan Moran Mar 4, 2016 ▶ 10:15 She Focuses on Energy and Did $1.2m Last Year with Sheevaun Moran Ep 180
Mar 5, 2016 negative
Insight
Gordon: Download Squad and GHacks struggled because they neglected social marketing
“Look at all of these old sites that had, Good and interesting stuff like Download Squad or G-Hacks, which is still around, but isn't, you know isn't really sustaining very well, and they didn't market themselves as well as something like Lifehacker did. They d…”
Whitson Gordon Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 7:26 How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187
Mar 6, 2016 positive
Opinion
Stubblebine: Hatching Twitter has minor factual errors but feels broadly true
“The book itself is basically true. The story rang true. A lot, all, almost all of the facts that I knew about were wrong in some minor way as I read the book, but the actual story of it felt true.”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 3:06 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
Mar 6, 2016 neutral
Opinion
Stubblebine: Twitter's early turnover was team upgrading, not co-founder feuds
“It wasn't that the co-founders were feuding at the, or that there was any sort of scandal. It was just, they're constantly trying to upgrade the team in order to keep up with what Twitter ended up being, which, you know, obviously had nothing to do with where …”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 3:32 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
Apr 1, 2016
Disclosure
NowThis uses Dataminr to spot trending stories on Twitter
“We look at we social listening tools Such as data miner and you know, really look for stories that are gaining velocity on platforms like Twitter,”
Ashish Patel Apr 1, 2016 ▶ 7:00 $16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215
Apr 20, 2016 negative
Opinion
Jason Hartman claims half of all podcast download numbers are faked
“Most podcasters are worried about their downloads and their downloads are, half of them are fake because they're Twitter bombing their downloads.”
Jason Hartman Apr 20, 2016 ▶ 17:34 "I Don't Know How Much I Made in 2015, It's Too Compliated" with Jason Hartman of JasonHartman.com EP 243
Jun 7, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Allouche: Metadata.io Extracts 100–150 Data Signals from an Email Address
“What we do is that we connect to many more data sources, not only cookies, but we connect to, and we specialize in B to B, so we can find out just by an email what's that person, you know, job, what was the previous job they ever worked for, their education le…”
Gil Allouche Jun 7, 2016 ▶ 7:28 Technical Co-Founder Hits $35k in MRR, Won't Sell for $10m Today, EP 264: Gil Allouche
Jun 11, 2016 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Himler: Twitter Acquired Influencer Startup Niche for $20 Million
“He started a company called Niche out of New York, N-I-C-H-E dot C-O. And basically he matched Brands with those that have big influence, a lot of followers on Vine, on Twitter, on Instagram, and he built this business, and then Twitter bought his company, he'…”
Peter Himler Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 13:32 He Helped Invent NYT Paywall in 2005, Predicts Future of Content, EP 278: Peter Himler
Jun 14, 2016
Assertion Supported
Wickham: Total Frat Move's Twitter feed has 1 million followers
“So if we send a tweet out from Man Outfitters, a Twitter feed, we will oftentimes retweet it on TFM's Twitter feed that has a million followers.”
Madison Wickham Jun 14, 2016 ▶ 23:31 Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham
Jun 20, 2016 neutral
Disclosure
Dignan: Controls a 175,000-follower Twitter network for traffic generation
“I have like a Twitter, like a 175,000 army that I could turn on”
Vincent Dignan Jun 20, 2016 ▶ 7:58 This Guy Might Be the Biggest Underground Growth Hacker Ever, EP 304: Vincent Dignan
Jul 6, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Taub: SocialRank's Instagram Product Is More Popular Than Its Twitter Product
“I would actually say our Instagram products seem more popular than our Twitter product these days.”
Alex Taub Jul 6, 2016 ▶ 11:23 EP 347: How Social Rank Hit $50k In MRR In Under 2 Years With CEO Alex Taub
Nov 16, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Foo: Employees at Dropbox, Twitter, and Airbnb independently adopted Polymail
“We have multiple users at Dropbox, Twitter, Airbnb where a lot of the users there have just adopted the product on their own.”
Brandon Foo Nov 16, 2016 ▶ 13:24 EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo
Feb 27, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Socedo achieves 90% Twitter-to-LinkedIn match accuracy and 80% email accuracy
“We don't guarantee an accuracy rate, but our accuracy rates are pretty high. So we normally see accuracy of about 90% when we're going from a Twitter account to a LinkedIn account match. And then from email address, you kind of get to accuracy rates around 80%…”
Aseem Badshah Feb 27, 2017 ▶ 11:31 EP 583: Socedo Does $1.5M+ In 2016, $200K MRR Now Helping 200 Customers Close More Leads with CEO Aseem Badshah
Mar 29, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arora recruited three to four developers unpaid for the initial product.
“And I got almost three, four of them on board for the idea without paying them a penny. And after that, I started the product with them.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 3:40 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
Apr 21, 2017
Assertion Supported
Frrole uses official Twitter and Facebook APIs rather than web scraping
“We have data partnerships with both Twitter and Facebook. So, so we have access to you know official access to these API. So it's a no scraping part there at all”
Amarpreet Kalkat Apr 21, 2017 ▶ 3:35 EP 636: Bangalore Startup Hits $40k MRR Helping 18 Customers Get Consumer Data Using Social Intelligence with Frrole CEO Amarpreet Kalkat
Aug 31, 2017 negative
Disclosure
Köppelmann refuses to build on centralized APIs like Twitter
“So I personally would never build, let's say around the API of another platform. So let's say Twitter, because they can change the rules anytime they can shut it down. And even if they have well intentions and they want to say, okay, we will never change the r…”
Martin Koppelman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 21:08 768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?
Sep 5, 2017
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Mariana IQ's shower singing marketing video hit one million Twitter views
“And that video, we put it out on, on Twitter, and that got like a million hits or something, or views or something like that.”
Venkat Nagaswamy Sep 5, 2017 ▶ 13:03 773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?
Sep 7, 2017 neutral
Assertion Supported
Swan: Likefolio ingests every brand-mentioning tweet via official Twitter partnership
“We have a partnership with Twitter, we take in every tweet that is mentioning a brand or product that's owned by a publicly traded company, and then”
Andy Swan Sep 7, 2017 ▶ 6:26 775: FinTech Founder: I'll Never Raise Capital Again!
Sep 11, 2017
Assertion Supported
Glueck: Foursquare Powers Location Data for Uber, Apple Maps, and Snapchat
“Mapping understanding of a 160 plus countries has, you know, winds up in being used in a lot of your favorite apps, Like Uber, and Apple Maps, and Snapchat, and Twitter, and Pinterest, and Samsung phones”
Jeff Glueck Sep 11, 2017 ▶ 4:38 779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company
Nov 1, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
March: Some Conversocial clients have 200 to 300 agents dedicated to social care
“Some of our customers do have that many customers, that many agents just doing customer service through Facebook and Twitter, like not even considering the rest of the contact center.”
Josh March Nov 1, 2017 ▶ 11:33 830: SaaS: With $20m Raised, $10m+ ARR, He's For Enterprise Customer Management on Social Media
Nov 1, 2017 positive
Opinion
March: Twitter has right turnaround ingredients and gets unfair press
“You know, it's really hard to know, but I think they're doing a lot of really right things, you know, because of the partnership we have with them. You know, I know a lot of people there who I think are, like, really committed and are doing really amazing thin…”
Josh March Nov 1, 2017 ▶ 22:01 830: SaaS: With $20m Raised, $10m+ ARR, He's For Enterprise Customer Management on Social Media
Nov 15, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Barrett: Expensify's tech stack resembles consumer social more than Concur
“We've built in a tremendous technology stack. That's much more like Twitter or Facebook than it is like concur or something else.”
David Barrett Nov 15, 2017 ▶ 15:34 844: SaaS: How Ignoring CAC Works for ~$100m ARR Expensify
Feb 21, 2018 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harrell: Kahoot reached 50M users faster than Twitter
“We've gone from zero to fifty million users almost as fast as Facebook, faster than Twitter.”
Eric Harrell Feb 21, 2018 ▶ 8:02 942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning
Apr 25, 2018 positive
Insight
Yu: Twitter and Tumblr influencers prefer cost-per-click pay
“Those are the influencers love to get paid by clicks. It's easy to have the link embedded.”
Heidi Yu Apr 25, 2018 ▶ 9:19 1005 How She's Managing 4+ Business Models at Once
May 18, 2018 negative
Opinion
ShareThru competes primarily with Google and Facebook, not Twitter
“Who we do compete with really is just the behemoths of Facebook and Google. You know, some people put Twitter and others in the same sentence, but Twitter pales in comparison and size to Google and Facebook and the ad ecosystem.”
Dan Greenberg May 18, 2018 ▶ 5:45 1028 Advertisers Put $250m Through Him Last Year As Top Google, Facebook Alternative
May 31, 2018 neutral
Disclosure
IdealSpot spends $15,000 monthly on marketing across Google, Bing, and Twitter
“We are spending about 15 grand total a month all in. And that's spread between right now remarketing Google, Bing and a little bit of Twitter.”
Mark Smookler May 31, 2018 ▶ 20:06 1041 From Sake to $1m ARR SaaS
Aug 8, 2018 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Leber: Twitter suspended thousands of Vitamin's accounts overnight in May 2016
“So May 2920 16. We literally had zeros across our dashboard on the back end looking at all the accounts, and I thought, oh, man, something must be wrong with the dashboard, because there's just no way we could have lost thousands of accounts overnight, and it …”
Hank Leber Aug 8, 2018 ▶ 3:07 1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down
Aug 8, 2018 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Leber: Twitter cut automation tolerance by 80% to 200 actions daily
“It took longer than three weeks to figure out that it was a reduction in the automation threshold. It went from a thousand actions per day down to about 200 per day. So they did an 80% reduction in their tolerance.”
Hank Leber Aug 8, 2018 ▶ 5:56 1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down
Aug 8, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Leber: Vitamin burned its remaining $70K runway in 3.5 weeks
“We had raised about 650 and we had gotten just that month. We got into cashflow positive by about a hundred dollars. So I was like, Hey, this is great. I'm going to go out and fundraise like this. You know, arms crossed instead of like this with hands outstret…”
Hank Leber Aug 8, 2018 ▶ 4:37 1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down
May 14, 2019 neutral
Insight
Anderson: True A/B testing is impossible on Facebook and Twitter
“The real challenge there is to do a proper A-B test. You actually have to be able to divide your sample set into two equal groups. And the way Facebook, Twitter, and the other platforms work, you actually can't do that.”
Jim Anderson May 14, 2019 ▶ 14:18 1389 With $10m in ARR, He's Helping Publishers Better Monetize Social Traffic
Jun 5, 2019
Disclosure
Mack: Spokal slowed new feature development to maintain ~20 API integrations
“So the issue with this kind of space is it changes so fast that it's difficult to try to like you can't just build a product and then leave it running because all the other, like we integrate with probably about 20 different systems, which is kind of where a l…”
Chris Mack Jun 5, 2019 ▶ 8:05 1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?
Aug 10, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Riley: Sensia Does Not Analyze Social Feeds or Media
“What we don't do is analyze like media, what is happening on your Twitter feed or stuff like that. Whereas a lot of that's kind of just like one spot, all of it, you know, it's great for executive meeting, having a face to face. It's different when if I'm in t…”
Joanna Riley Aug 10, 2019 ▶ 18:48 1477 $0 to $50k MRR in 70 Days for New Recruiting Tool Backed by AI
Aug 26, 2019 negative
Disclosure
Rossi: Buzzsprout struggled with Twitter and Facebook ads but succeeded on Google
“We're not doing, we haven't done really well with Twitter or Facebook, but Google has done pretty well for us.”
Tom Rossi Aug 26, 2019 ▶ 7:32 1493 How Podast Hosting Company Buzzsprout Passed $15k in MRR, 1000 Customers, Bootstrapped
Nov 8, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moore: DirectSuggest Has Spent Under $2,000 Total on Marketing
“So, we haven't spent any money on Facebook, haven't spent any money on Twitter. We've spent around 500 bucks on LinkedIn, and that's all the money that we've spent. We've spent less than 2000 dollars overall.”
Riley Moore Nov 8, 2019 ▶ 3:36 1567 How New Employee Feedback Tool Plans to Monetize
Jun 17, 2020 neutral
Opinion
Major platforms should allow programmatic API access to all app features
“Anything you can do in an app, you need to be able to do programmatically. Anything I can do in the Twitter app, I need to be able to do through a program. Anything I can do in the Facebook app, I need to be able to do through a program.”
Albert Wenger Jun 17, 2020 ▶ 30:45 Albert Wenger on Work After Capital
Aug 19, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Baird Hall scraped podcast RSS feeds to cold-email Wavve's first customers
“Nick is my technical co-founder and he built me this we use the iTunes API to give me a little search dashboard. So I'd go on Twitter and I would try and find people that are promoting their new episode, ideally like their first or second episode. I'd look for…”
Baird Hall Aug 19, 2020 ▶ 8:14 Wavve Hits 9k For Audio Video Tool, $70k Monthly Profits!
Aug 24, 2020 positive
Opinion
Jackson: Dorsey understands blockchain will undermine Twitter and Square
“The reason is he's one of the only billionaires who, Understands and admits that blockchain technology will undermine the two businesses he currently runs.”
Adam Jackson Aug 24, 2020 ▶ 37:20 BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token
Aug 27, 2020
Assertion Supported
The Tie leverages Twitter's firehose to calculate real-time crypto sentiment
“We're an official Twitter partner. So we leverage their fire hose and calculate real time investor sentiment on, you know, hundreds of cryptocurrencies. And we feed that we sell APIs to hedge funds and other market participants.”
Ben Latz Aug 27, 2020 ▶ 7:08 Wingman Hits $6k MRR, 24 Y.O Uses to Track Option Trades
Dec 8, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Singh: Vid Camera signed influencers with combined 375M followers
“So we have influencers signed on to the platform to use the platform from day one. They have a combined following of around 375 mil. That's across Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.”
Jagat Singh Dec 8, 2020 ▶ 3:22 Vid.Camera Sells $20m in Tokens, Converting 100% to Fiat for New Facebook Where Creators Own Upside
Dec 27, 2020 positive
Insight
Le Cunff: Building a Twitter audience requires sharing work in progress
“To not be shy about what you post and to not always share only the product, the final product of your work. I try to work in public. I think lots of people enjoy following my timeline because I share the work in progress. I share the questions. I share the mis…”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff Dec 27, 2020 ▶ 13:21 NessLabs Hits 1,500 Members Paying $75k, Software Next?
Dec 27, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Le Cunff: Twitter algorithm does not penalize low-performing tweets
“It's probably one of the very few platforms where you don't really get punished by the algorithm for sharing tweets that don't perform that well. So you should feel comfortable just keeping on tweeting. And this is also the best way to understand what your aud…”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff Dec 27, 2020 ▶ 14:34 NessLabs Hits 1,500 Members Paying $75k, Software Next?
Dec 27, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Twitter remains the primary customer acquisition channel for Ness Labs
“Yes, it is still Twitter, and I am actively growing acquisition from SEO and Google. It's growing really, really fast. At this point, it's still Twitter. That's my main acquisition channel”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff Dec 27, 2020 ▶ 6:23 NessLabs Hits 1,500 Members Paying $75k, Software Next?
Jan 6, 2021 positive
Insight
Azora: A high-quality audience of 30 loyal followers can anchor SaaS launches
“If you focus on the quality, not on quantity, if you know your follower, if you're friends with them, if you help them constantly, they will give you back. What does it mean? So imagine you have only 30 followers on Twitter, but you know everything about this …”
Alexander Azora Jan 6, 2021 ▶ 2:46 UnicornPlatform Bootstrapped, 500 customers, Doesn't Want "Scale at all costs"
Apr 5, 2021 negative
Opinion
Jack Dorsey's 2008 ousting from Twitter was 'unconscionably terrible'
“No. Absolutely not. What they did to him was unconscionably terrible, and I was very angry.”
Jim McKelvey Apr 5, 2021 ▶ 15:43 Billionaire Co-Founder of Square Joins Latka
Apr 8, 2021 positive
Insight
Franceschetti: DTC brands should build owned community months before launching
“Actually, I will start three, six months before you start building the community, you start engaging them on what you're doing right now. I think the big difference that you see with media and the relationship between tech and media, it's you want to build you…”
Matteo Franceschetti Apr 8, 2021 ▶ 6:36 Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?
Apr 8, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep's Miami Hotel Room Booked 3 Months in 24 Hours
“We launched this initiative on Twitter and the room got booked for the first three months, which is all that we allowed, like in 24 hours.”
Matteo Franceschetti Apr 8, 2021 ▶ 18:08 Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?
Apr 8, 2021
Disclosure
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep Has Over 100,000 Email Subscribers And Uses Twitter Most
“Yeah, that is the number one platform. And then obviously we have an email list of over a 100,000 people and other platforms, but Twitter is the one where we are the most active.”
Matteo Franceschetti Apr 8, 2021 ▶ 7:10 Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?
May 20, 2021 negative
Opinion
Jones: Developers are not the ideal persona for frequent tweeting
“Developers aren't necessarily the persona that you would attach to tweeting a lot.”
Spencer Jones May 20, 2021 ▶ 2:32 Developer side project gets first 80 customers, $6k in ARR, how'd he do it?
May 20, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jones: Twitter is Chime Social's only customer acquisition channel
“Twitter right now is my only channel, which kind of makes sense because it's a Twitter scheduling and analytics tool, so I want to find people on Twitter.”
Spencer Jones May 20, 2021 ▶ 6:31 Developer side project gets first 80 customers, $6k in ARR, how'd he do it?
Jun 5, 2021
Disclosure
Fazio made over $500,000 from a cold email course via organic Twitter
“No, no, no ads. That's entirely from Twitter. All half a million of that is from Twitter.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 7:55 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Jun 5, 2021 positive
Insight
Fazio: Growing a Twitter audience requires executing Brunson's Dream 100 strategy
“Your first function is to do Russell Brunson's little dream 100 thing. You need to post a lot of value, have threads, make a giant pinned thread on your profile, just give an absolute ton of value. And now what you're doing is you're finding other big accounts…”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 6:22 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Jun 6, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Noah Bragg: Building in public on Twitter drove ~85% of Potion customers
“So mostly what I've been doing is just building in public on Twitter. I'd say probably about 85% of my customers have come from that.”
Noah Bragg Jun 6, 2021 ▶ 3:44 Build a Website On Notion? Founder Gets first 70 Customers at $10/mo!
Jun 10, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Chen: Testimonial.to grew without paid ads or cold outbound emails
“I actually don't have any other marketing channels, so I don't have any code email outbound. I don't have, I don't run any paid ads”
Daman Chen Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 6:27 Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?
Jun 11, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Twitter 'build in public' community drove initial viral growth for Snapify
“Before we really released Snapify, we already were pretty active in the built-in public community on Twitter, and when we released it, it's some sort of build of a little viral effect and helped us very much in promoting our tool and finding users for it.”
Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 11:14 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product
Jul 1, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cam Sloan: Twitter build-in-public updates drove initial customer referrals
“Honestly, most of the work that I've been doing, I share publicly on Twitter. And so Twitter has been really helpful, even though most of the people who follow me are not like great customer fit, they will often like refer other people who are asking about it …”
Cam Sloan Jul 1, 2021 ▶ 5:42 Indie Riches: He Makes More Now Than The $100k Job That Laid Him Off in 2019
Feb 10, 2022
Assertion Contradicted
Twitter bought Crashlytics for 'well over' $100M, correcting $38M reports
“It was yeah, it wasn't 38. It was over a hundred, well over a hundred.”
Jeff Seibert Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 7:58 Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next
Feb 10, 2022
Disclosure
Digits raised from 72 angels, including Box, GitHub, and Twitter CEOs
“We actually had 72 angels in digits. And these are the CEOs of Box, it's Aaron, of GitHub, it's Nat, of Twitter, it's Dick Costolo, et cetera.”
Jeff Seibert Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 16:51 Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next
Feb 10, 2022
Assertion Supported
Twitter acquired Crashlytics just 14 months after its initial launch
“Basically 14 months from launch to being acquired by Twitter.”
Jeff Seibert Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 6:34 Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next
Mar 15, 2022
Disclosure
Tommy.ai spent only $4,000 on social ads in Q4 2021
“So for Q four last year, we spent only 4000 dollars on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter.”
Konstantin Bayondin Mar 15, 2022 ▶ 13:49 100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post
May 24, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Breakcold acquired its first five customers via Twitter in one week
“Actually I was starting to kind of build my personal brand on Twitter, and so I was building in public because it's a thing in Texas on Twitter, and this is how we got our first five paying customers like one week after realizing the MVP we got our first MRR p…”
Arno Belenga May 24, 2022 ▶ 4:00 How he used Twitter to hit $24,000 sales for new SaaS Tool
May 24, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Arno Belenga grew Twitter following from zero to nearly 7,000
“So I started in mid November. I had zero followers. Now I have almost seven K followers. So yeah. And when we started the SAS, I had probably 1000 followers.”
Arno Belenga May 24, 2022 ▶ 4:35 How he used Twitter to hit $24,000 sales for new SaaS Tool
May 24, 2022
Disclosure
Breakcold abandoned Twitter for cold outreach due to poor conversion quality
“Our target audience was not on Twitter, even though we managed to do a lot of impressions there, and so our acquisition channel right now are called emails and LinkedIn”
Arno Belenga May 24, 2022 ▶ 11:36 How he used Twitter to hit $24,000 sales for new SaaS Tool
Jul 18, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Ingram: Startups cannot compete with big tech remote salaries
“Like how do you can't compete with that. Like there's really nothing you can do about that. And it's only getting worse.”
Chad Ingram Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 10:44 $0 to $2m in 6 months helping SaaS companies hire engineers fast
Feb 24, 2023 positive
Assertion Open · timeframe Feb 2023
Berman: Twitter lead giveaway generated 400 comments in one day
“I was just giving away 379 leads. We have 400 comments in a day and each one of those 400, they get the leads. And then the second thing in the comment is a link to Omni.”
Alex Berman Feb 24, 2023 ▶ 10:50 How to Clone Existing Company and Hit $10k MRR In Under 6 months
Apr 25, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Shorty Awards built the first Twitter social voting system in 2008
“So we built the first ever system. Now that's commonplace, you know, you want to vote, share it on social media. No one had done that before, so when we launched it, within 24 hours it became the top trending term on Twitter”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 3:39 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
Feb 4, 2025
Insight
Giffis: Marketers buy ad products on standard metrics, not bespoke engagement
“They wanted to talk about engagement and all these unique things, and I said, guys, nobody gives a shit what you're talking about. That's not how marketers buy the product. People buy on clicks, they buy on CPC, they buy on CPM. Don't fight the tide.”
Scott Giffis Feb 4, 2025 ▶ 7:04 Frame.io COO Shares How they Built Product to Hit 1m Users and Exited to Adobe for $1.25b
Jun 8, 2025
Assertion Open · timeframe Jun 2025
Yadegari's college admissions tweet received 28 million views
“It got twenty eight million views, and then if you scroll down the personal statement, got forty million views by itself, and so that garnered so much attention, and we actually had a few stations reaching out”
Zach Yadegari Jun 8, 2025 ▶ 12:40 18 Year Old Got Paid $2.9m Last Month for New AI Mobile App
Jul 15, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bendray: Nikita Bier advised Quizzard to switch to weekly subscriptions
“Mike actually like texted Nikita, I think on Twitter and Nikita was like switch to weekly subscriptions and charge more or something like that.”
Sid Bendray Jul 15, 2025 ▶ 12:53 How This 25 Year Old College Kid Built a $500K/Month App Empire
Dec 10, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Romain Torres: Arcads revenue jumped from €5K to €64K via viral tweet
“We got like, hundreds of sales in one single night. And so what happened here was Someone generated a video on our cards, published a video on Twitter, and this video went completely barrel. And so we had this huge spike of revenue jumping from like five to li…”
Romain Torres Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 3:57 From $5K to $10M ARR: The ArcAds Founder's Playbook
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