Cluster Penetration

Week 34 · 11 watched clusters · 84K mapped accounts · audiences resolved every 5m

LIVE
3 clusters reached
Resolved 12s ago

All monitored posts

Paul Graham@paulg

The most common mistake in YC applications is describing the market before the user. Tell me the one person who desperately wants this. If you can't name them, the market size is zero.

posted 9d ago · 3.4M views3 of 11 clusters reached

posted 9d ago · 3.4M views3 of 11 clusters reached

Key insight

Stayed close to home: 60% of views never left VCs. @garrytan's quote (+5.0h) opened Tech Twitter, but nothing further caught. 3 of 11 watched clusters reached.

Where the views landed3.4M views · bubble area = views contributed · tint = share of cluster reached

@garrytan

@DavidSacks

@chamath

@benedictevans

@cdixon

@garrytan

@sundarpichai

@elonmusk

@CaseyNewton

@emollick

@lennysan

Spillover pathVCs+5.0h

Tech Twitter+7.7h

Media

Penetration by clusterwatched clusters · sorted by views

VCsselected2.06M
72% reached
@paulgposted+0m
Tech Twitter869K
29% reached
@garrytanquoted+5.0h
Media385K
11% reached
@karaswisherreposted+7.7h

Cluster	Mapped	Views	Reached	Entry point	First reached
VCsselected	5.2K	2.06M	72%	@paulgposted	+0m
Tech Twitter	28.4K	869K	29%	@garrytanquoted	+5.0h
Media	11.2K	385K	11%	@karaswisherreposted	+7.7h

Resolving audiences

@levelsio→ Founders•
@karpathy→ Tech Twitter•
@garrytan→ VCs•
@morganhousel→ Finance•
@caseynewton→ Media•
@patio11→ Founders•
@eladgil→ VCs•
@drjimfan→ AI Research•
@chamath→ Finance•
@shl→ Founders•
@rauno→ Design•
@jack→ Tech Twitter•