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record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 2 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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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”
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”
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.”
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.”
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”
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'…”
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.”
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.”
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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.”
Assertion Supported
Twitter acquired Crashlytics just 14 months after its initial launch
“Basically 14 months from launch to being acquired by Twitter.”
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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 …”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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,”
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Moran: Spent about $2,000 weekly for six weeks on ad campaigns
“We probably did... We did about 2000 a week. For six weeks.”