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Halldor Thorhallsson

Idea validation for Twitter power users

Hey y’all!

I’m in the process of validating an idea that I found through “scratching my own itch”. The problem is that I have very diverse interest and I end up following a bunch of people from very different communities on Twitter. I’d love a tool that could segregate the users I follow into curated lists. I.e when I’m in the mood for investing I’d look at my investing list feed. I want to keep my main feed just focused on a few ppl that I engage with regularly.

It sounds easy to just start making Twitter lists and slowly migrate ppl I follow over but it is a huge hazzle imo. I also find it much quicker to just click follow than adding people to a list. The tool could automatically suggest partitioning of the people you follow into lists with some tweaking controls.

I guess the two problems I see with this are that

  • it’s not a big enough problem that people would pay
  • it’s a one time problem so it’s a poor candidate for a recurring revenue saas
  • market is too small

What do y’all think?

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Ruben Ramirez

This has been on my mind for a very long time. You are very right about lists being a hassle (did you know you can't even search lists to find other already made lists?) Twitter has not allowed for the network effects to occur by doing that. I've even gone as far as creating 2 other accounts (3 total) for different things (tech, sports, and my local network).

You do make good points about this being a viable SaaS. It's surely a great feature for Twitter themselves to have, but will someone pay for it? I would, but I am also in the extreme case (aka the multiple accounts).

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Halldor Thorhallsson Author

@Ruben5Ramirez thanks for the feedback! If I take this any further I’d love to have a more in-depth discussion with you.

One other benefit I see with lists is that you separate tweeting from consuming. I often get lost in consuming when I just meant to tweet a thought out.

I guess to estimate market size one strategy is to cold-tweet users with 1k+ people they follow 😅?

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Fajar Siddiq

Hey 👋 Halldor, I have an idea for you.

Twitter API does it well, users can sign in via Twitter & create a profile on your new platform idea. Just need to do the categories of the list.

Users can create a profile: male, female Users can add their work from: creative, community etc Users can add education: dropout, diploma, degree, masters, PHD User profile can describe their own profile what they like: food, movies, travelling

Then people can browse through users who sign up, they can connect to each other, each profile can also pin 1 tweet and show other 3-5 tweets on their bio like the best wall of love what he likes to share.

So example: newidea.com/fajarsiddiq follow me now. you see my categories list, my wall of love & my profile and analytics of how my twitter profile is growing.

Let me know if you need me to design and you can code this project @halldorb

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Halldor Thorhallsson Author

@fajarsiddiq I love all the creativeness in this reply! Thanks so much for the feedback! 😀

I think the augmented Twitter profiles is interesting. I.e pinned tweets, best threads etc. Def a market there I think.

I don’t know if building a network on top of Twitter would work, it should probably just be a part of the Twitter network, I.e follow the people you follow on Twitter?

I really like this idea, I think in general it’s much harder to build a platform/community vs service/tool. Sometimes the former comes from the latter and really strengthens it but I think going for a service/tool from the start is a better strategy.

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Fajar Siddiq

@halldorb That's a great feedback reply. Platform vs Tool. I got your point.

✅ Platform: Yes twitter network, existing users & new users Yes, platform that has some features:

  • following people are great, the news feed is all there.
  • at times I want to search and see profiles that could match me base on similar interests, so that is why we create this platform to solve this problem. I would love to sign up and connect with business people and those who love creativity like art and passion for other kinds of things like traveling or finding a job thru recommendation.

✅ Tool: there is plenty tool out there showing analytics or curating threads or schedules of tweets. And the best tool is Tweetdeck. I'm not sure what other tools could be a good use case for this and I don't know if I need any tool on Twitter since everything is already built by the twitter company.

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