Tim van den Bosch

Founder @ Sitelane | AI-first strategy, content & tech in a monthly plan

[Tim van den Bosch @mondayrunner]

@nifinet Stack please 🙏

[Tim van den Bosch @mondayrunner]

@benln No Amsterdam yet!? Maybe i should organize ;)

[Tim van den Bosch @mondayrunner]

For those who would like to earn a little money on X. 😅

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

"Can you earn money with Twitter?"

That's a question I have been asked a fair couple of times by now. I don't mind the question at all. It seems like there is not much specific information publicly available on some of the metrics, at least I couldn't find any that went beyond vague speculations.

So here we go, a little bit of my personal experience - and if you'd like more info on it, you can DM me anytime.

First of all, the answer to the question "Can you earn money with Twitter?" will depend on many factors.

First: Your expectation - what do you consider a worthwhile amount? Obviously, that's a very subjective answer.

Second: Your patience, dedication, consistence, and passion. I know that might sound generic, but if you give it your best shot for a few weeks, you will not see much of a difference. If you are willing to stick with it for 3-6 months, you will see progress (small, but visible) - which will hopefully give you enough motivation to keep going.

Third: Verified followers and active followers. Those two metrics really matter a lot. If you see an account with 100k followers, that person might have only 1k verified followers. Another account with 5k followers might have 2k verified followers. Guess which one will earn more? The 2k verified follower one.

That means: Check your followers every 3-4 weeks, and drop the ones that are inactive, look like bots, or follow thousands of accounts while having under 100 followers - those are most likely bots anyway. In other words: Raw follower numbers mean very little, verified followers and active followers mean a lot more (you can see both stats in your analytics, see screenshot).

Now to the actual numbers - which I assume vary depending on your niche as well as the 2 factors above, among others.

I hover around 2 million impressions per 2-week-span, sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less. I have 14.6k followers (13.3k active ones, by Twitter's measure). My verified follower count is around 20% (2.9k).

The way I understand it is that the revenue is tied to impressions and interaction between you and your verified followers. Unverified followers count too but to a much smaller degree - which doesn't mean you should ignore them... many people chose to not get the checkmark but are still nice people and worth while your time, of course.

My earnings are around US$ 400 for a 2 week span. If you do a simple conversion from impressions to US$, it comes to around 5k impressions per US$ 1 earnings.

Keep in mind, that needs to be taxed as part of your income, so it's probably going to be more around 8k impressions per US$ 1 net earnings.

So, to answer the question in a simple way: Yes, you can earn money with Twitter. But, is it worth it in terms of hourly rate? Nope, not at all.

I usually spend on average 20 hours per week on Twitter (I schedule all my posts over the weekend and public holidays, not during the work days) - so around 40 hours per 2 week span - meaning the hourly rate is somewhere around US$ 10/hour (before tax). That's below minimum wage where I live. I'd be getting more for stacking shelves at a supermarket.

If you do it for the money, you won't find happiness here. You will forever be chasing that elusive viral post and become a slave to the algo. Don't do that. Do it for the fun, connect with people, share your thoughts and memories, be nice, help when people ask - if you focus on that you will be in a much better place. And then the extra money is a nice bonus.

DM me if you want to discuss more.

[John Bai @johnbai]

It's kinda crazy that you can just use multitask design mode to make a bunch of frontend UI changes, then ask for a shared link canvas with a recap of the changes in like 5 min

[Ben Lang @benln]

80+ open roles at Cursor:

[Dan McAteer @daniel_mac8]

This is amazing. Do this:

1. Set model to Opus 4.8
2. Reasoning effort to /ultracode

Enables Claude Code's new Dynamic Workflows.

Claude will autonomously detect complex tasks, write an orchestration script, and spawn an agent swarm.

[Tim van den Bosch @mondayrunner]

@ericzakariasson It's quick, it's good. Some small things it got wrong using gsap the other day, but the plugin fixed that. Great that @cursor_ai now suggests what Plugin to install! ❤️

[Tim van den Bosch @mondayrunner]

@levelsio @denisyurchak Delft is also highly recommended!

[@levelsio @levelsio]

POV building an AI startup

[Tim van den Bosch @mondayrunner]

Organizing @cursor_ai Hackathon in The Hague together with @andreaskruszaki and friends.

Join us! https://t.co/TSS5XIsr0n

[Tim van den Bosch @mondayrunner]

@NapierHolland Nice thanks for sharing 🙏

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Singapore’s Foreign Minister, Dr Balakrishnan casually explaining how he built his own AI agent (a 2nd brain for diplomacy) using Claude & WhatsApp integration etc. on a Raspberry Pi

“You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on.” 🇸🇬

[Plausible Analytics @PlausibleHQ]

"Get started" is probably the most overused button label on the web.

It tells you nothing about what happens when you click.

"Start free trial" answers the important part: this is a trial, not a commitment.

So we changed it.

Result: Trial signups increased by 84% in 3 months, while traffic increased by only 2%.

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

In 2023, Stanford professor Graham Weaver gave his last lecture on how to destroy fear & live a wildly ambitious life.

His frameworks:

- Suffering is inevitable
- Signup for "10 years" test
- "Not me" & "Not now" traps

13 lessons on how to build an asymmetric life:

[HeyGen @HeyGen]

We built our launch video in Claude Code using HyperFrames.

Now it's yours.

Open source, agent-native framework. HTML to MP4.

$ npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes

RT + Comment "HyperFrames" to get the full source code of this launch video (must follow)

[Tim van den Bosch @mondayrunner]

Was at an ux conference yesterday. The amount of designers that were afraid of using ai (Claude Code eg) because of the environmental impact or sending data to an llm was crazy. We are all brainwashed it seems. Literally everyone uses Google and Gmail each day for free for years without any complaints.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.

It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.

You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.

[fofr @fofrAI]

[excitedly] I've been having fun with Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, the audio tags are really flexible, you can do so much with them.

[like dracula] I can't believe things like that just work.

[Tim van den Bosch @mondayrunner]

@KaterynaLis “You don’t have the cards” 🤣

[Alex Napier Holland 🦍 @NapierHolland]

Most startup homepages have terrible headlines:

❌ Some copy the lofty positioning statements used by giant, investor-focused brands.

❌ Most AI startups try to hit every potential audience with a generic 'AI workflows' angle.

👇 Here's a free guide to write better headlines.