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Flocknet — Search your Twitter followers by job, workplace & keyword.
Flocknet lets you search your Twitter followers by job, workplace, location, and more. Founders use it to hire engineers from their following, investors use it to source deals, and journalists use it to find specialists in their network.
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Hey ProductHunt!
I originally built Flocknet as a quick weekend hack on the way to a design conference in New York City last year. I was frustrated with Twitter's own tooling and was surprised I couldn't do something as simple as "Show me all designers following me in NYC."
We've heard more and more stories about how Founders are now finding their lead investors on Twitter, how early-stage startups are recruiting a significant number of their hires from their Twitter network, and how Investors are sourcing investments through their followings. We're now part of YCS20 and our goal is to build the ultimate "people search engine" to amplify your ability to do just that– starting with your own Twitter graph.
And– we're been delighted to hear that people are already using Flocknet to keep track of their Twitter network, hire, find sales leads, friends, and even romantic partners (?!). We're now helping people get updates on nearly 9 million followers through our Daily Digest and Search tools!
Here's a bit of everything we can do today:
1. Search by profession, sort by follower count, location, and keyword. Our job classifier today supports: Engineer, Designer, Investor, Founder, and Press / Media.
2. Daily network updates. We surface your network's profile changes daily (for Paid accounts) and weekly (for Free accounts), which you can use to spot job changes, life changes, and more. You might spot a friend traveling because of a new tagged location in the Bahamas for example, or spot a major exec leaving a company before they announce it because of a slight change in their bio (both real examples!).
3. We have a full contacts manager with alerting, reminders, and CRM-y features for taking notes, tracking when you last DM'd someone, pipelining potential candidates, and more.
We'd love to hear more about how you use Twitter to find the people you're looking for. We have a great number of things planned for the rest of the year that we think you'll love.
Both searcher and provider get more information leveraging twitter (tweets, likes etc) than if they just relied on CV's or application forms. I love the idea 👍
Flocknet is awesome. Even as a lighter user, compared with some of the more pro usecases, the daily network updates are always a great read—I'm enjoying having this different perspective of Twitter. Keep it up Aaron!
@tommy10cents Hey Tom– we went down for about 5-10 minutes when you reached out to deploy some upgrades. :)
This looks like it can be pretty useful! One idea I had, which may or may not be useful, would be to have a searchbox that limits you maybe to like 5 searches.
Even without signing up, just let me look up 1-5 people and show me the value you can bring right away. If I find it useful, I'm hooked. At little to no cost to you.
Would really love it if you could archive all DMs into a CRM like feature. Twitter has no way of easily looking at your DM history with your followers. Same for mentions.
I first saw this product on Pioneer.app where Flock was #1 on the leaderboard. It clearly had the potential to be transformational as a business and personal CRM. It’s come a long way in six short months and is now a must have for anyone with a Twitter account.
No better way to tap into your twitter data; super impressed and looks pretty polished :D
Love it! I use it to track when smart folks are moving on to new projects. Very useful for investors and recruiters.
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