Adafruit’s Top Ten Tweets of 2017 #AdafruitTopTen @Twitter
TL;DR: Raspberry Pi, cosplay, #startrekcats, maker history past and now, sales, and security.
Below are embeds of our most popular Twitter tweets from 2017, rated from #10 to #1 by reach (impressions, views, etc). Of course thanks to everyone who follows us on Twitter and engages with us in that space.
Our #10 most-popular tweet had a notable 572k impressions (and it only gets better from there!):
#3: At an even 1 million impressions was this #startrekcats tweet:
https://twitter.com/adafruit/status/900089421269053440
#2: This one clearly made an impression with a reach of 2.4m users:
https://twitter.com/adafruit/status/916473322203992064
It should also be noted this was our most engaging tweet, with an astounding 1.1k responses!
#1: And our most-reached tweet of the year actually went out on New Year’s Eve if you can believe that. (Humblebrag it was a blog by moi and intentionally timed to publish at 9:11AM.) It helps when you get a few notable retweet assists 😉 This tweet had a remarkable reach of 3.9m users:
https://twitter.com/adafruit/status/947470202983378946
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