[level09]

I played with twitter bots before, and I tried different ways to maximize the exposure of my "automated" tweets, sometimes by parsing dictionary words, other times by targeting trending hashtags, but that didn't seem to generate much traffic.

I would be really interested in any statistics regarding the effect of hashtags, or statistics about users who actually browse/search through hashtags.

[minimaxir]

I submitted a post yesterday I wrote about using statistical analysis on Instagram hashtags: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7458540

The key takeaway is that there's a lot of variance in the amount of engagement even after optimizing your hashtags. Twitter would be worse since there's an implicit hashtag cap.