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I built a better Twitter analytics tool

Hi all.

For the past 5 weeks I've been building a tool for better understanding Twitter.

It's called ilo.

Why?
I got back onto Twitter properly in April this year, and have had amazing success being part of the tech/dev community and also launching some products. I found Twitter's own analytics to be a great starting point showing some metrics, but I felt really frustrated at how I couldn't dive deeper into the data.

What ilo does
The idea with ilo is to make it easy to see how each tweet is doing by tracking impressions and engagements. This makes it also easy to see which tweets have a bigger impact than others, for example, which tweets drive more profile visits, replies or retweets.

ilo also has some unique features, like Tweet Timelines, showing impressions and engagements over 24 hours (an idea borrowed from many newsletter platforms).

You can have a look at my public dashboard for my account at ilo.so/dr/.

Earlybird deals
ilo is almost ready to launch out of alpha. Today I released earlybird pricing at $50/year or $120 lifetime. These limited deals expire tomorrow (Friday) and are available to all users. Get a deal before they are gone.

I'm planning on a proper launch next week. Hopefully pre-launch sales can help validate the product ✨

Thanks for reading!

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    Been following you on Twitter watching you build this in public. Being able to see someone build a business from ideation to launch is very motivational. Keep up the good work and best of luck on the launch, Dan!

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      Thank you Nick! I love building in public and I'm happy to hear you've got something out of it.

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    I've been following your progress with ilo and it's been awesome to see. Looking forward to seeing where you take it from here.

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    Congratulations on the launch!

    You might be interested in checking out this problem - Analysis of social media posts of anyone, perhaps ilo could solve that too?

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      Unfortunately a large chunk of the valuable data that ilo shows is "private", so only available to users who auth with Sign in with Twitter. There is no public metrics for most of the engagement types.

      Someone could easily build a tool that grabs the open metrics (like, replies, retweets) for any Twitter user, but you wouldn't be able to get impressions, profile clicks, etc. These are the key metrics for ilo.

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    Congrats Dan, nice product! I was happy to try it in the early phase!
    All the best.

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      Was very happy with your support and feedback. Thank you Bruno

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    I've been following this on Twitter, congrats Dan! Looking forward to reading the results of the earlybird launch ;)

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      Thank you for following along, Nico! Appreciate the support

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    This is really cool, just signed up. I love how you offer and describe the plans. That's very clear and sets expectations in a respectful way.

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      Thank you for signing up Arvid! I hope you find value in using ilo.

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    I'm using it and like the visual simplicity.

    Is the fee on a per acct basis, or are you able to use it for multiple twitter handles?

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      Hi Brendan. Glad you like it!

      At the moment, it's one plan per account. I hope to add user switching features at some point but for this there may be a new pricing tier ($X for X accounts, for example).

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        That would be ideal. A lot of folks have 1+ work accts and a personal acct...would be great to track each from the tool. (No need to merge them, though.)

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          This seems like the number one request from people. Will investigate the best way to connect accounts (you'd still have sign in individually...) and I'll have to think about pricing. Sounds like a "Pro" feature to me. What do you think?

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            It's def something people would pay more for.

            I keep my ilo tab open all the time, so having to sign in for each acct isn't really a hassle. (Being able to switch back and forth as you can with the twitter app on the desktop would be really slick, but not required.) I guess the challenge is allowing a user to have more than one instance.

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    Hi @dr,

    It looks very promising. I'd like to take a look at it. What are your plans for the near future? What else do you want to build in? Can you throw us a candy?

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      Hey Stefan! Plans for the near future are a public launch and building out some more metrics. I am also starting on a "benchmarks" tool which will let you compare your own data against other accounts, to help give your metrics some context.

      The best way to try ilo is to just sign up :) It's totally free until September 16, when I turn on the regular paid plans.

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        Interesting, thanks for sharing. I will test it, for sure.

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      Thanks Anil!

      ilo is built on a mix of the v1 and v2 APIs. I have changed up the data part of ilo a lot during the alpha. It was really useful opening early and having real data to test different approaches with! I'm guessing as v2 will become more comprehensive, I'll be able to move off v1 completely.

      Your tool looks cool! What is your use case for that?

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