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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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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