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A legit way to get more followers on social media. Helps you build high quality one-to-one relationships with new people. Pick a keyword like "startup school". Our system will detect when "startup school" type conversations are going on in real-time and performs sentiment analysis. That's a highly targeted opportunity for you to start engaging with that user. And we deliver that user to you on a silver platter. It's up to you to keep the relationship going (put them in your sales funnel).

It was a bitch to manually get followers on Tumblr to sell t-shirts to. I had to seek users out, make sure they fit my target audience, and insert myself in the conversation. All without it looking like self‑promotion. That's a lot of mental energy just to reach out to one person. Once I built a fairly large sized audience boat loads of t-shirts started selling. Then I figured startups and businesses on Twitter would find it useful. And they did. Paying customers tell me it works 100 times better than Twitter ads.

If you're interested: http://audience.goodsense.io



That sounds useful! I signed up for your newsletter. I'm curious if you have a series of screenshots or something showing it in use?


Thanks for signing up for the newsletter! I couldn't figure out which person you were based on your HN name. So I couldn't email you screenshots.

Email me here! blog.goodsense.io/contact


I'd be interested too! Why not just put up some screenshots on the website? For the time being (and for future readers of this thread), you could just use a temporary URL, such as

goodsense.io/temporary-stuff/screenshots/...


I signed up to check it out and created a campaign. I can't tell if it's doing anything, though. Should I expect an email of some sort? Or do I need to check back to look at your page later?


Sorry it's so confusing. If you created a campaign then it is already working. There's nothing else for you to do inside the product.

Now all you have to do is interact with the people that are starting to engage with you. It's not an instant thing. Our system detects when relevant conversations are going on using fancy algorithms based around machine learning, sentiment analysis and POS tagging.


Sorry but I still don't quite understand. How are people going to engage with me? Does your system tweet / follow people for me?


No, I'm sorry! The "social etiquette" on each social media channel is different to begin a conversation. For Twitter, it can be as simple as a "favorite". The system doesn't tweet or follow people.


Ah! I can see it at work now. I sure have favorited a lot of stuff recently :)

One thing I noticed is that it favorites some things that don't make a whole lot of sense. For example, I have a 'bitcoin' campaign. It favorites Russian spam links and random BTC arbitrage "results" along with some more reasonable type stuff. Is there any way for me to tailor these results a bit?

For example, does it recognize my behavior and favorite similar items? Or if I add keywords to the campaign, will it limit results a bit more?


But what does it "do". What is causing these people to start engaging with me? (I signed up and am completely bewildered)


Thanks for pointing this out. I do need more copy there stating exactly what the system will do.

In case you didn't catch my response to someone else, the "social etiquette" on each social media channel is different to begin a conversation. For Twitter, it can be as simple as a "favorite".


It favorites things for you on Twitter.




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