Twitter / X
AI Thought Leaders — Podcast Guest Discovery
Find AI researchers and practitioners writing long threads about LLMs, RAG, and AI agents. Uses filter:self_threads to surface original thinkers over reposters — ideal for podcast booking, event speakers, and collaboration.
Real campaign data. Run on production — no staging, no mock data.
54
Profiles Found
2
Qualified
72
Top Score
$1.62
Total Cost
This is real, unedited data
The leads below come directly from a production campaign run on the platform. Nothing was cherry-picked or cleaned up — you're seeing the same output the user received in their Excel export.
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Our job is to help you tighten filters — rating thresholds, price levels, review minimums, categories — so the AI scores leads more accurately for your specific use case.
We don't guarantee conversion
Lead quality depends entirely on your filters, persona description, and scoring thresholds. Lode Leads finds, scores, and enriches — but whether a lead converts is up to how well your filters match your actual business needs. The tighter your criteria, the higher the qualification rate.
I run an AI podcast and I'm looking for potential guests — people who actually write about LLMs, RAG, and AI agents, not just share links. How can Lode Leads help me find them on Twitter?
Twitter is perfect for this. The platform has a rich community of AI practitioners writing original long-form threads. A couple of things to narrow it down: What follower range are you targeting — household names, or mid-tier practitioners? And any specific topics within AI you want to focus on?
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mid-tier, 5K to 500K followers — the technical stuff, LLMs, RAG, AI agents
I'd use the `filter:self_threads` operator to surface people writing original threads — not just sharing. Search terms covering LLM reasoning, RAG architecture, and AI agent frameworks. Min 100 likes, English only, max 60 results. Should I create this as AI Technical Thought Leaders?
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yes, create it
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AI Thought Leaders — Podcast Guest Discovery
Twitter / X · Profile Search
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Run it
Estimated cost: ~18 credits ($1.80). This will search for up to 60 profiles from AI thought leaders writing original threads.
Confirmation Required: Run Campaign
Est. Cost
~18 credits
Balance
9,700
After Run
9,682
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Go ahead
Pipeline running! Searching Twitter for AI/LLM thread writers with the self_threads filter and 100+ likes.
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How did it go?
Excellent results! Found 54 profiles — 2 qualified and 10 nurture leads. Top result is Ethan Mollick (Score: 85), a Wharton professor with 345K followers who writes prolifically about AI. Noam Brown (Meta AI researcher, Score: 81) is your #2 — fewer tweets but extremely high-quality research threads. The self_threads filter worked well: it surfaced actual thinkers like Andrej Karpathy, Simon Willison, and Chip Huyen rather than accounts that just share links. Total cost: $1.62 (16.2 credits) at $0.03/profile.
Campaign Results
54
Profiles Found
2
Qualified
10
Nurture
85
Top Score
Top lead: Ethan Mollick — Wharton professor, 345K followers, prolific AI thread writer · Score: 85
#2: Noam Brown — Meta AI researcher, 104K followers · Score: 81
Insight: The filter:self_threads operator is powerful for finding people who write long-form AI content. Combined with the 5K-500K follower range, this surfaces practitioners over promoters.
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Export everything
Your Excel includes all 54 profiles with scores, thread samples, research topics, follower data, and AI-generated podcast pitch angles.
AI-Thought-Leaders.xlsx
54 profiles · scores · thread samples · research topics
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Profile Results
2 qualified and 12 nurture leads from 54 profiles analyzed
| Profile | Followers | Tweets | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ethan Mollick @emollick | 345K | 35K | 85 | Qualified |
Noam Brown @polyaborenstein | 104K | 1.6K | 81 | Qualified |
Eliezer Yudkowsky @ESYudkowsky | 12K | 3.7K | 75 | Nurture |
kalomaze @kalaborenstein | 24K | 32K | 73 | Nurture |
Kyle Chan @kylechan_eth | 43K | 7.2K | 72 | Nurture |
Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz | 326K | 45K | 71 | Nurture |
Simon Willison @simonw | 85K | 52K | 70 | Nurture |
Jim Fan @DrJimFan | 290K | 4.2K | 68 | Nurture |
Andrej Karpathy @karpathy | 880K | 8.5K | 66 | Nurture |
Elvis Saravia @oaborenstein | 62K | 18K | 64 | Nurture |
Chip Huyen @chipro | 95K | 12K | 62 | Nurture |
Harrison Chase @hwchase17 | 72K | 6.8K | 60 | Nurture |
Swyx @swyx | 58K | 41K | 53 | Did Not Match |
Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward | 210K | 28K | 51 | Did Not Match |
Russ Maschmeyer @rmaschmeyer | 8.5K | 5.2K | 44 | Did Not Match |
Pedro Domingos @paborenstein | 38K | 14K | 42 | Did Not Match |
Campaign Config
Platform
Twitter / X
Search Terms
Sort
Top
Language
English
Min Likes
100
Follower Range
5K – 500K
Max Results
60
Total Cost
$1.62 (16.2 credits)
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