This first lead spends $140k/week on ads. The second blows $3M+/mo. The third prints $6M+/year.
Twitter is the only platform where you'll find "hidden whales" with open DMs like this.
So here's how we locate and pitch them with Grok 4.6:
First things first:
This is an INBOUND game, not an outbound one.
It's very hard to use any scraper, or even your own eyes, to find these leads STRICTLY through outbound.
You can try, and I've seen it work, but you'll send a mountain of outreach to people who will never buy.
So let's get into the inbound funnel that makes this work.
The entire process looks like this:
1. You create content that attracts the right people
2. You make them DM you first, or at least follow you
3. You nurture the conversation like a normal human being if they DM first, or you provide value upfront if you're DMing them as a follower
The reason you want them to follow or DM you FIRST are these:
- Some of them won't even have open DMs
- Some ignore outbound entirely
- Some will never buy from outbound as a business practice
Plus, your:
- Close rate gets worse
- Frame gets worse
- Ability to charge higher prices gets worse
Everything goes down the gutter when it's pure outbound when it comes to these hidden leads.
Can you still do it outbound? Yes. But to followers instead.
Complete cold lands in Message Requests or straight spam. Messages to followers land in the main inbox with way better open rates.
And if you're doing cold volume, you can't afford personalized messages to everyone because:
1. You can't send links in the first message
2. Most won't open it, and you're burning time
3. You'll get banned, hit spam, and get your entire account cooked, which tanks your views, and then EVERYTHING goes under
Now, how do you actually create content that attracts your ICP?
You need to stand out with good content.
But what's good content? Better content than what your peers are putting out, that solves more problems than theirs, in the simplest way to consume possible. Value is created when pain is alleviated. And if there's any unfulfilled demand in your niche and you fill it, attention naturally flows to you.
The way to do it is as simple as it sounds: put in more effort. Crazy, I know.
It's not about prompting Claude better or differently though. It's:
- putting more hours into longer pieces
- breaking down more videos
- breaking down more images
- breaking down more case studies
- trendjacking more often and quicker
- just doing MORE
You can't build a Grok bot automation that does this for you. Stop being stupid. Stop believing the stupid things people post about.
On top of effort, you must innovate. Bring things from other niches, formats winning in other spaces, angles nobody in your lane has touched. Don't follow the crowd like a worthless sheep.
The only exception to this rule is if you’re a complete beginner who knows zero about X.
Then just mimic whatever the people in your space are doing while adding your unique spin to it. People need to normalize this. It’s how everyone starts.
Just don’t blindly copy stuff word for word.
You need to analyze what good looks like FIRST to learn what good even feels like.
Next layer: your content can't just be valuable. It has to be valuable and unique to YOUR ICP (Ideal Client Profile).
Which raises the question: do you actually know your ICP? If you're a real business owner you should be able to yap 3-6 pages about them on command.
Don't give me "someone running a 7-figure ecom brand who needs Meta ads." Don’t be brain dead. Be specific:
- Are they already running Meta ads?
- If not, are they spending a certain amount elsewhere?
- Do they need better creatives?
- Better media buying?
- Everything better?
- Better funnels?
Niche down to PROBLEMS, not people. If you niche down to a problem you automatically niche down to a person, but most people niche down to a broad market and their message just doesn’t hit.
Lemme give you an example:
"Running Meta ads at 0.7x ROAS and can't make it profitable because my landers suck" is a specific problem you can fix with a CRO service. That's a niche. "7-figure ecom brand" is not, because they could be printing profitably and need you for absolutely nothing. No problem, no reason for a solution to exist.
And you can’t market to someone with 0 problems.
Mine your data to know more about this:
- best clients
- sales call recordings
- DM conversations
Everything you can find.
The reality of why clients struggle is almost always different from what you assume. You might think your client can't create winning creatives because they aren't AI savvy. The actual reason might be that they don't understand color theory and you can barely read the CTAs on their ads.
Something THAT stupid can literally be the reason they can't make money.
And you will never know unless you dig into the data.
Use AI to spot the patterns. Then create content that addresses those exact patterns and alleviates those exact problems. That's where value actually gets created.
Every question your team asks. Every sales call objection. Every SOP you build. Those are all winning content ideas.
One more cheat code:
If you ARE your own ICP, the content you'd genuinely enjoy reading is 90% of the time content your ICP will also enjoy.
If you sell B2B services you're probably not your ICP exactly, but you might be close. Meta ads agency owner for DTC who used to run an ecom brand? Pretty damn close.
And if you've never run what you sell? Fair game, as long as you learn properly and deliver.
A mediocre fighter can be an amazing trainer. Most of the best football coaches ever were shitty players. Different skills. There's nuance to this but I’m not going into it here in this tweet.
If you have no sales calls and no data at all, you shouldn't even be optimizing for locating whales. DM everyone, work for free until someone pays you, get a case study, and transition into a real business ASAP. Learn your ICP on Reddit and Quora in the meantime. That's it.
Last 3 things on content:
1. Same way that sales is a transfer of trust, writing is a transfer of emotions.
The entire purpose of good copy is to trigger an emotion that leads to any action. And the emotional state you're in while writing reflects in the emotional state of whoever reads it, 99% of the time.
It's like being with a girl while you're stressed, distracted, thinking about a client that churned. You can't be present. And she ALWAYS spots it. Always feels it. No matter what you do.
Twitter readers will have that level of intuition about the shit you’re writing.
I’m writing this first thing in the morning, drinking coffee, with a dog nearby. I didn’t sleep shit today, so I’m pissed. That will show in my writing.
Readers are not dumb. They are your wife. They spot that what you wrote was lazy and straight out of Claude. Write in a good energetic state or the reader will feel your boredom.
2. Make your content as skimmable as possible
It’s the same as Hormozi’s value equation.
An offer (transfer of value) hits harder the less effort, money, and sacrifice it takes to get the dream result. A piece of copy is an offer itself. People will read your stuff because they expect to be closer to their goals after finishing it. So make it as effortless to read and comprehend as possible.
Simple words, bullet points, clear language, jokes here and there.
3. Add “DM me CTAs” at the end of your bigger pieces
Long-form posts, giveaway messages, articles, etc
You never know who’s gonna read your stuff. It’s like playing a football match. Maybe a Liverpool’s scout is looking at you. Maybe not. Who cares. Play like that game is your ticket to the Premier League.
Obviously don’t include this on a short form about how your mother passed away with leukemia. Don’t be stupid. Have taste to it.
This is how you’ll make whales reach out to you first, then sealing the deal will be extremely easy. You’ll just have to find their pain points, position your offer as the solution, and send a Calendly link.
NOW. You're attracting the right people. Followers are stacking. Time to locate, identify, and pitch the whales with Grok.
First of all, export all your followers with the “XExporter” Google extension (perfectly safe with no API BS)
Feed it all to Grok.
Ask it to analyze your followers and flag the hidden whales based on these signals:
1. Bio hints at their offer or how much they make
2. Simple, chill profile picture. Or a chill banner. Or no banner and no profile picture at all
3. Handle is usually everything EXCEPT their own name, probably with a bunch of numbers
4. Based in rich / tax evasion people places: Delaware, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Saudi, Bali, Madeira, Cyprus, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, etc
(You can even segment the locations according to your niche. Different ICPs will prefer some places to others)
Then the niche-specific hints most people scroll past, but Grok catches:
- SaaS guy with "YC" quietly sitting in his bio
- Ecom guy in a trendy niche that's obviously printing rn
- The stereotypical rich keywords like AP, S&P500, RM, etc
Then who they FOLLOW, which is one of the strongest signals:
1. Targeting coaches and consultants? If they follow Sam Ovens, they're rich. That's OG OG. Everyone and their mom follows Hormozi, but Sam Ovens is different. It means they’re in the game for long
2. Targeting ecom guys? Following Jason Applebaum / Luke Belmar / Alex Becker / Davie Fogarty means OG + prob crushing it
3. The list goes on
Every niche has these. The more niche the figure they follow, the harder they print.
Then their RETWEETS, because most of these hidden accounts only have retweets:
1. Only retweeting low-quality AI giveaway slop = probably broke
2. Retweeting genuinely high-quality niche giveaways = they're IN the niche
3. If they're in the niche AND running one of these ghost lurker accounts, they're most likely printing. They just don't give a fuck about building a personal brand, because from where they sit, that's broke people shit
And finally their posts and images:
1. Ecom guys posting screenshots of their brand doing $3M with ZERO likes
2. SaaS founders building in public, VC-backed, getting 3 likes per post.
3. Agency owners celebrating 2 comma awards to 23 views
(The amount MFers like these on X is astronomical)
Adjust the niche figures and locations to your market and let it cook.
And the pitch? Reach out like a normal human being.
I'm not handing out exact scripts, because strategies die the moment they go mainstream. Even 1k views on this tweet is enough to cook it. If only 10 of those people act on it and each sends 10 DMs a day, that's 100 DMs a day hitting the same small pool of qualified whales. In three weeks, the market is saturated. There aren't that many qualified people in most markets.
So principles only:
1. Mimic the way they speak (we like to buy from peers)
2. Don’t spam follow-ups like a homeless beggar (respect their time)
3. Opener must provide real value, be an easy yes, concise and well-written
4. Be authentic, speak your mind like in a normal conversation. Don’t force the pitch
5. If you don’t align, walk away without any dirty tricks. Maintain an abundant aura always
6. Acknowledge what they say, ask closed-ended questions, provide options/examples (minimize friction)
7. Take your time, read the room, but have as much speed to contact, speed to reply, and speed to booking as you can
And that’s how you find the demand everyone else swears doesn't exist.
I can guarantee that if you act on everything here you'll start booking whale leads.
We've done this across 10s of niches with every B2B offer you can think off.
DM me “DFY” if you're too lazy to run this yourself tho