I sold my company earlier this year and I've been thinking about what I want to do next. Founders with a following on Twitter can bounce ideas off that group and get early adopters, so I wanted to grow my Twitter account. I follow Daniel Vassallo (grew to 70k+ followers) and he suggests replying to big accounts when they tweet. Twitter has notifications you can turn on to get notified when people Tweet, but there are a few problems:
I cracked open VS code and got to work. Here's the solution, I'm calling it Wax:
Let me know if you have any questions!
I was looking for a tool like that! I'll try it and get back to you, thanks for sharing :)
Awesome, thanks Sammy!
Just curious, where did you look (just a Google search)? What else caught your eye?
Yes, some research on Google/Youtube, Reddit and IH
Being the 'reply guy' is definitely one of the best ways to grow on Twitter. I do think that having a tool like Wax can be really helpful for that.
The first thing which came to my mind was: that's going to be a lot of emails. Are you really sending one email per Tweet or is there some kind of aggregation in place?
I'm working on improving the controls on that. The list I follow has 29 members and the volume of emails isn't too crazy. I have a "split" set up in my inbox where all these emails go to a separate inbox. I currently only send the "best" email per minute and I'm planning on allowing the user to turn that down to 5, 15 or 60 minutes. I'm also working on a schedule so you can only get the emails from say noon to 6 PM or whatever timeslot works for you.
So the value here is simply to reduce the frequency with which you have to open Twitter?
It's a few things: