Yapper Leaderboard
See the biggest startup yappers on X/Twitter
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See the biggest startup yappers on X/Twitter
171 followers
The Yapper Leaderboard ranks Twitter/X's startups and users by how much they yap. The startups with the most impressions climb to the top of the daily leaderboard. See weekly growers to keep your eye on which people and companies are trending upwards! Sign into X to add your company and team to the leaderboard!
The trend-over-follower-count framing is the right call β for community work the loudest accounts and the most influential ones are rarely the same people. Concrete question: what's actually being scored under 'yapping' β raw post volume, reply/quote engagement, or something weighted so a handful of viral posts don't drown out the consistent daily contributors? And can I scope the board to a custom list of handles (my own community/ecosystem) rather than only the global or YC-batch views?
Everyone's arguing about whether impressions reward volume, but I'm stuck one step earlier: where's the impression data even coming from? X only hands real impression counts to the account owner through their own analytics, so a public leaderboard either scrapes the per-tweet view counter (doable but rate-limited into the ground) or estimates it from likes and replies, which drifts from what people see in their own dashboard. Which is it, and how stale can the number get between refreshes?
This is a fun way to surface who is gaining attention on X, especially the weekly growers rather than just the biggest accounts. Iβd be curious how you stop the leaderboard from becoming a pure impressions contest. Do you factor in engagement quality, account size, or sustained growth, so smaller companies with real momentum can still stand out? Also, can users filter by industry or startup stage? That would make it much more useful for finding relevant people rather than just the loudest ones.
Fun idea and it loads fast. Watching T3 Chat sit at number 1 makes the ranking feel instantly believable, and the YC batch filter is a smart touch for checking who is loud in your batch. Spent about ten minutes poking around before commenting.
One thing that tripped me: the search box reads like I can look up any X account, but it only matches accounts already on the board, and it seems to match website domains too. I typed vercel and got one random person whose portfolio is hosted on vercel.app instead of anything Vercel related. Matching handle and display name first would fix that. Also the 24H column is all dashes right now, might be worth hiding it until the data lands.
Upvoted, curious how big the board gets after today.
I like that you're tracking trends instead of just showing follower counts. Sometimes the people creating the most interesting discussions aren't the ones with the biggest audience.
@sutton_willowΒ A freinnd of mine is always looking for active people to follow in the startup space. I think this would make it much easier to discover new voices instead of seeing the same accounts every day.
@sutton_willowΒ one question I have is whether users can filter the leaderboard by category, like AI, developer tools, or SaaS. That would make it easier to find people working in specific areas.
Ranking by impressions feels like it'll reward whoever posts the most rather than whoever says something worth reading. Is there any normalization for post volume, or does a company that tweets 20 times a day just automatically outrank one that tweets twice?
If I don't add an account manually, will it simply not appear in the rankings? I'm interested in seeing the overall rankings across the entire platform, especially by category. Travel influencers are particularly interesting to me because I'd like to buy advertising from them. Is that something I can see right now?