Rust on Instagram
I am not a regular Instagram user, but somtimes I open it and try to figure out how it works.
A couple of days ago I noticed that there are a number of Python-related accounts with more than a million followers. I looked for Rust-related accounts I could only find a few mostly inactive account that had only a few thousand followers.
It is either that Rust developers are not on Instagram, or that so far no one put enough energy into making a popular account.
As having a popular Instagram account about Rust might fit will with my plans with Rust I thought I'll try make one.
So welcome to the Rust Maven on Instagram.
I already had an account called Code Maven with a few followers, but only two posts. I renamed the account to Rust Maven, removed the old posts and published a few images of code. I mentioned it in the Rust Maven newsletter and posted about it in the Rust Programming Language Facebook group. I got a few new followers and a few likes.
I know it will be a long process to get tracktion there, but let's do some analyzis of what is out there.
In each group the accounts are ordered by number of followers
Rust-related Instagram accounts
| account | posts | followers | following |
|---|---|---|---|
| rust_programming_language | 12 | 2,374 | 16 |
| rustlanguage | 7 | 1,223 | 0 |
| rustacean.dev | 14 | 576 | 9 |
| rust_language_ | 19 | 283 | 434 |
| rust_lang_ | 1 | 75 | 6 |
Popular Instagram accounts for programming languages
| account | posts | followers | following |
|---|---|---|---|
| python.hub/ | 3,680 | 1,600K | 75 |
| python.learning | 1,908 | 1,100K | 17 |
| python.coder_ | 1,328 | 1,100K | 101 |
| pycoders | 1,606 | 494K | 261 |
| python_is_trash | 142 | 491K | 0 |
| python.science | 1,117 | 164K | 9 |
| python_scripts | 427 | 48K | 433 |
Some more popular programming-related Instagram account
For some reason I used to follow these accounts.
- github 753 posts, 421K followers, 32 following
- thecodergeek 398 posts, 152K followers, 22 following
- code.know 333 posts, 130K followers, 45 following
- gitlab 65 posts, 90K followers, 20 following
- cloudcomputinghub 209 posts, 23K followers, 23 following
Popular programming-related hashtags
Goals
Frankly I don't know what would be realistic goals. The first milestone would