The Math of Visibility: Hacking the X Algorithm Without Losing Your Soul
Published Jan 31, 2026
If you have fewer than 1,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter), you are speaking to an empty room. You can craft the most insightful, witty, or groundbreaking post of the year, but if the algorithm doesn't seed it to an initial audience that engages with it immediately, it dies. The "For You" feed is a ruthlessly efficient prediction engine, and it predicts that nobody cares about a user with zero momentum. This isn't personal. It's just math. At its core, the X algorithm is a...