⭐ I decided to analyze 58,950 users from Indie Hackers twitter account 🤩 (Part1)

Hey guys!
It all started just because I’m curious how to grow my twitter account better. I decided to make a mini-research & pull the public data of almost 60k IndieHackers followers from Twitter and see what I can learn & share it.

The goal of posting it here is:

1. to share what I found so far & discuss it with someone
2. to get more ideas what can be interesting to know besides - where to dig and so on 🙏🏻
3. to dig deeper & provide more value 🚀

🟡 Done so far:
I’ve got names, created_date, followers/followings, # of tweets, bios of all the users
Breaking them down into cohorts + a basic analysis of the bios.

🟡 General overview:

• 46% of users have <100 followers
  (cohorts = days from-till):
  

• 52% of users follow <499 accounts
  (cohorts = followings, from-till):
  

• 55% of users have <499 tweets
  (cohorts = number of tweets, from-till):
  

• 66% of accounts are older than ~5 years
  (cohorts = days of account existing, from-till):
  

🟡 TOPs:

• Top 10 accounts by followers:
  

• Top 10 accounts by followings:
  

• Top 10 accounts by tweets number:
  

• Top 10 accounts by age:
  

🟡 Early growers:
Those who just started (<50 days) & grew past 300 followers seem to be following aggressively:

Accounts who grew to 500+ followers in the last 100 days look like this:

(looks like they either start with following others, or are really active (# of tweets), or maybe have other source of audience - eg, other social media)

But accounts who grew to 10k+ followers in the past 365 days don’t have a high following/followers ratio:

🟡 Bios content:

I checked the # of bios containing some words assuming this may correlate with the audience interests/niche they are working at, etc. Here is the result:

IH users seem to be founders with mostly technical background + there are more niches/interests that are interesting to check.

What I was even more excited to see is the ability to find the intersections of interests in particular bios. This may be a good way for lead generation/targeting particular people in a niche you are working in. For example, 'founder' + 'nocode':

🟡 Further plans & questions I have so far:

1. Dig into the posts from particular groups of people - to analyze their content, see best posts, etc
2. To track users' growth rate & check those who grow faster
3. To expand the research beyond IH community (eg, to 400k+ of Product Hunt and others. Btw, 20k of IH are the PH members :))
   If other people see value in these and other insights -> to build a tool providing this information to others

🟡 Just so you know:

If you have any questions/ideas what you’d like to see from this data -> please, let me know! I'll be happy to check them & share for you. If we have enough question here, I'll be happy to make a Part2 of it.

Also if you would like to work with a tool having all this data yourself - please, leave your email in a Typeform here - so I'll know you are curious about it: https://maxreva.com/twitter.

Also don't hesitat to ping me on twitter, ofc 😅!

Thanks for reading this & hope it brings value to you guys! ♥