For DMs from people you don't follow, I think Twitter now puts them in another category where you can't see them as easily, did you find that to be a significant hurdle? If so, anything you did or could do to mitigate that?
What do you use for continually searching Twitter? I know there are tools to scrape Reddit or Hacker News to know when your product is mentioned, I'm sure there's something for Twitter too.
For Twitter source labels, these days many browsers will pop up a "open product.com in new tab" link when you highlight an unclickable link, same as in mobile browsers, so I think it's still good advice to have links as your source label even if they can't natively be clicked on Twitter. This also means that product names and therefore their URLs should be short rather than long or convoluted. I even think useproduct.xyz vs product.com makes a difference in credibility and wanting to click the link ( I mean just look at even Indie Hackers, it makes product.com clickable and useproduct.xyz not clickable by default).
I also like that you're blogging about all this, builds up that SEO as well as being able to be posted on forums like IH.
Thanks for the shoutout, Satvik! 🔥
Nice to see all the points are still very relevant today.
You have some great tips! Some stuff I didn't even think about like the tweet source labels. I took some notes while I was reading:
What do you use for your affiliate program? Anyone know of any good ones for indie hackers?
What do you use for Twitter DMs? I actually asked about this the other day and got some good responses, ColdDMMe by @andrewpierno, PhantomBuster and Twidd by @yassineze were all recommended.
For DMs from people you don't follow, I think Twitter now puts them in another category where you can't see them as easily, did you find that to be a significant hurdle? If so, anything you did or could do to mitigate that?
What do you use for continually searching Twitter? I know there are tools to scrape Reddit or Hacker News to know when your product is mentioned, I'm sure there's something for Twitter too.
For Twitter source labels, these days many browsers will pop up a "open product.com in new tab" link when you highlight an unclickable link, same as in mobile browsers, so I think it's still good advice to have links as your source label even if they can't natively be clicked on Twitter. This also means that product names and therefore their URLs should be short rather than long or convoluted. I even think useproduct.xyz vs product.com makes a difference in credibility and wanting to click the link ( I mean just look at even Indie Hackers, it makes product.com clickable and useproduct.xyz not clickable by default).
I also like that you're blogging about all this, builds up that SEO as well as being able to be posted on forums like IH.
Thanks for the mention! We just took over colddm.me last week. Let me know if y’all have any feature requests!
One thing people get wrong with Twitter DM's is that they treat it like cold email. Twitter is not email and the approach that works is not the same.
I agree with Anthony on this one. Cold email is different in the sense that is much more impersonal.
Whereas a Twitter DM is more a conversation between 2 people that could very well have met during an online event.
Could you explain further how they're not the same? What approach should someone take for Twitter DMs as opposed to cold email?
In cold email you need to optimize the subject line before the email.
Twitter there is no subject line.
In cold email you need to say what you do in the first email.
Twitter responds best to casual messages.
Great article thanks. I have created a small database of peoples Twitter URLs. I will look to use Zlappo to do the outreach.
Great article. Thanks.
Nice @satvikpendem i will try these ways
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