68 SEO Experts to Follow in Threads

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Instagram Threads, the new social media platform on the market, seems like a strong contender to be adopted as the new SEO hotspot.

The social media space in the SEO community has seen many disruptions over the last year.

Twitter has always been a popular hangout until Elon Musk bought it and many people started abandoning the platform.

Although Mastodon launched back in 2016, many SEOs suddenly saw a new Twitter alternative in early 2023 after abandoning the Vogel app.

Although the decentralized platform initially showed promise, it has limitations when connecting to other servers and building the SEO community was difficult as people were split across different servers.

Then along came Bluesky – and once again the SEO guys waited to see if that would prove to be a success. Aside from a few early adopters, it hasn’t seen mass adoption or threatened the dominance of other platforms until now.

LinkedIn has been booming for over a year with a lot of activity in the community. Many SEO professionals who have been active on Twitter in the past have started posting lengthy messages about case studies and thought leaders on the platform.

A truly positive aspect of LinkedIn membership is the absence of the politics, outrage, and scathing behavior that defines Twitter.

LinkedIn is professional and a great platform to showcase what you’re working on and share ideas about work.

And then the Instagram threads started on July 5th at 7:00pm EDT.

2 million sign-ups were achieved in the first two hours.

In 24 hours it was 30 million. It took ChatGPT two months to reach 100 million followers. The threads lasted five days.

It took Twitter two years to get a million followers; Instagram took two and a half months. Threads did this in less than an hour.

Will threads succeed in sustaining and creating a new SEO community? At this point in time we cannot say.

We quickly jumped onto the platform in the first few days of launch and saw countless people we knew from the community come on board.

It has a fresh vibe and was like an old friends reunion that hasn’t been experienced in a long time. A buzz and an atmosphere of excitement and interest felt like Twitter many years ago.

For new users of a platform, one of the first things to do is to follow people and build your own followers list.

Threads does not currently support hashtags. This makes it all the more important to follow the right people to find the discussion you want to be part of.

For anyone interested in SEO, we’ve compiled a short list of SEO experts to follow in Threads to help you get started on the platform.

This list is not intended to be exclusive, exhaustive or a statement of who is considered better than everyone else.

It was put together by SEO experts already active in threads and we included current Search Engine Journal contributors.

A professional is someone we believe will make a significant contribution to the industry through social media, speaking engagements, and posting content that adds value.

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