X ALGORITHM UPDATE 🚨
X just stopped cutting new posts first, and that should help small accounts (I check it daily with Claude and share updates worth sharing with you)
tl;dr:
- X can only check 2,800 posts each time you open your feed
- new posts used to be last in line, so they got cut first
- now everything gets cut equally, new posts included
- posts labeled low quality or misinfo now show a warning, and people can't like, reply or share them
- no score changes this time
lesson learned: your new posts now get a fair chance to be seen. Your first 2 hours still matter most.
full details:
- How it worked until this week
Every time someone opens For You, X collects around 3,700 posts it could show them: posts from people they follow, popular posts, posts liked by similar people, and brand new posts.
But X only has time to check 2,800 of them.
So it just took the first 2,800 in line. Brand new posts were at the back of the line. When there were too many, they were the ones left out... and a post that never gets checked can't be shown.
- What changed
Now everything gets cut by the same amount. 25% too many? Every type of post loses 25%, new posts included. Nobody goes first.
- Why small accounts should care
Those brand new posts are under 2 hours old, with under 8 likes and under 500 views. That's where most posts from smaller accounts are.
My read: they now get a fair chance instead of being cut first. How often X actually hits the 2,800 limit isn't in the code, so I can't tell you how big the difference is.
- Low quality and misinfo posts now show a warning
If X labels your post as low quality or misinformation, people who don't follow you see a warning on it, and they can't like, reply, repost, bookmark or share it. The code doesn't say what gets a post that label.
Here's a recap of what you should be doing:
- a new post gets its extra push only in its first 2 hours and first 200 views, so post when your people are online
- likes carry more weight than ever at 0.66 each
- people sticking around pays, the time-spent score is 50% higher than two weeks ago
- a read of 10+ seconds after someone opens your post adds 0.4
- the boost favors the post with the best like rate from its first viewers
- accounts up to 50K can get one fresh original lifted to roughly 16th
- nothing beats a copy link share, it scores 20
- replies, quotes and DM shares each score 5
- talk with your mutuals, replies between you score 20 instead of 5
- originals are the only posts that travel outside your follower base
- the 1st and the 32nd like each open a new route to strangers
- your 2nd post in the same feed is worth 62% of the first, so pick your best one
- videos still need 10+ seconds to qualify for the video lists
- earning a follow adds 4
- a pinned post with a bad link can flag the account for 7 days, worth a quick check
What you should NOT be doing:
- posts that get labeled low quality or misinfo now carry a warning, and nobody outside your followers can like or share them
- video alone won't carry you, an open counts 0.02 and the watch 0
- hide-worthy posts cost more, "not interested" sits at -52.27
- a post at 3am burns its 2 hour window before anyone sees it
- a tap that turns into a bounce is worth only 0.3
- replies and reposts don't get past your followers
- insults get your post hidden from anyone who doesn't follow you
- adult media in 3 of your last 5 posts puts a label on your account
- disguised content in videos gets checked from 64 likes, harder at 512
- self-reply chains under big accounts risk being zeroed
- one account label and non-followers stop seeing you entirely
- low-rated links don't belong in your pinned post
- recycled wording can get tagged as copypasta spam
- strangers tagged plus a low quality link is a pattern X flags
- engagement bait has no size exemption
- several posts in a row end up competing with each other
- hashtag stacks add nothing
- bookmarks are still worth 0
- 48 hours in, For You is finished with a post
If generative AI is stealing can someone explain to me how humans consuming content and being inspired is any different? Inspiration and effort aren't unique to humans but your human story is unique to you, and that is what art is about. Telling a story.
Here’s something the anti-AI crowd won’t like:
Some people with absolutely no artistic background are now creating things they could only dream about five years ago.
Is the problem really AI, or that creativity is no longer reserved for a select few?
"AI made this" and "i made this with AI" are different things. the first is a vending machine. the second is a workshop. most good work comes out of workshops
Okay it's that time again and I'm pinning on top of my twitter page. If you want to be in a comic or you just want to share your reference sheet please post and any rules you have for your character or characters if you have more than one.
@icreatelife Yeah, that would be cool.
But if they could do something about those antis who get AI creators' accounts banned for no reason, that would be a good start.
Sorry for the negativity—I'm a little upset about this. 😮💨
(By the way, best of luck with your series!)
#FreeStanky
Non-verified accounts having the ability to mass brigade verified customers and get them deplatformed is a massive failing on behalf of X.
You can't give an inch to the anti-social, as they will abuse every weakness and every tool available to seek their advantage.
If X wants to act as the "public forum of the internet" it needs to stop allowing the raving lunatics to determine who is allowed to enter the space.
The feed is infested with ideological addicts who, like fentanyl zombies, disrupt the everyday lives of functional members of our community.
"I was offended by that"
So what! Scroll away.
We cannot allow the sickness of The Blob to continue to affect our institutions. We cannot grant special statuses or protections to individual groups or identities in our community.
Within the systems and policies of X, there still lies a deep, deep sickness.
If there is any hope for healing, we must root it out.
Free TheKingOfStank!