How Typedream's Twitter Grew To 7K Twitter Followers in 1 Year

A phase-by-phase recap on how we grew Typedream's Twitter account to 7k followers in 1 year.

Phase 1: 0-500 followers

We started our Twitter account back in 2021 with a tweet of an upcoming teaser video of Typedream. That tweet got the attention of over 100 people and quickly got us over the 100 follower threshold in about 1 week. After that we had Guillermo Rauch, Vercel CEO, quote tweet us and it took us to more than 300 followers in the 2nd week. By the end of the month, our teaser video had over 5000 views on Twitter

Phase 2: 500 - 1000 followers

This stage is dominated by the Typedream team building in public. When we were building in public we opened up 2 waitlists via Product Hunt's ship and our very own waitlist page. The function of this waitlist page was for us to be able to interview every single potential user and build the product according to their feedback. Within the first month, we had over 200 people who waitlisted to use Typedream.

We started building out the MVP according to the teaser video and left everything else for the users to decide. As we interviewed our users, we tweeted about them. The tweets included a picture/video of our virtual interview and what they wanted from a next-generation website builder. This got the attention of many other users who also wanted to help shape the website builder of their dream.

Eventually, we started giving out beta access to users who have interviewed with us and encouraged them to create content around their experience in using Typedream. These zealous users of Typedream tweeted about how simple it was and how life-changing it was to build websites using Typedream. Hence, it garnered even more attention from the public, and they populated our waitlist beyond 1000 people.

The only way for people to get access to Typedream was to go through the waitlist and get interviewed, this angered hundreds. We had people knocking at our gates and to appease them we made a SIMP program where waitlisted users can generate content on how badly they wanted to use Typedream across all social media. This propelled us to 1000 followers and beyond on Twitter.
Here are examples of the simp content that our users put out on social media.

Phase 3: 1000+ followers

The only way for people to get access to Typedream was to go through the waitlist and get interviewed, this angered hundreds. We had people knocking at our gates and to appease them we made a SIMP program where waitlisted users can generate content on how badly they wanted to use Typedream across all social media. This propelled us to 1000 followers and beyond on Twitter.
Checkout the blog post to see the simp content that our followers put out on social media!

The Next Challenge

We are now trying to expand our reach beyond the Twitter bubble as we grow our Instagram, Tiktok, and Youtube accounts. We are learning a lot and we can't wait to share it with the rest of you once we gain a significant number of followers on those 3 platforms. See you guys on the next one!