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Arno Belenga grew Twitter following from zero to nearly 7,000

Arno Belenga · How he used Twitter to hit $24,000 sales for new SaaS Tool · May 24, 2022 · at 4:35

Break Cold co-founder Arno Belenga describes his Twitter audience growth while building his startup in public.

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“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.”

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The claim, plainly

Arno Belenga started with zero Twitter followers in mid-November, had roughly 1,000 when starting the SaaS, and reached nearly 7,000 followers.

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Assessment

The claim regarding Arnaud Belinga's Twitter follower growth (starting at 0 followers in mid-November 2021, reaching ~1,000 at SaaS MVP launch in late December 2021, and reaching nearly 7,000 by May 2022) is supported solely by Belinga's self-reported statements in interviews and promotional materials. Publicly accessible independent archives and tracker tools (such as Wayback Machine and SocialBlade) lack contemporaneous point-in-time captures verifying the exact follower milestones during these specific historical dates. Because independent archival data does not exist to corroborate the historical figures after the fact, the claim cannot be resolved using public records.

May 24, 2022 Top Founders interview transcript records Arnaud Belinga self-reporting follower milestones (0 in mid-November 2021, ~1,000 at SaaS launch, and almost 7,000 in May 2022).
Independent historical web archives and social tracker logs (Wayback Machine, SocialBlade) do not contain contemporaneous daily captures confirming the follower counts on the stated dates in 2021 and May 2022.

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