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I reverse-engineered X's open-source algorithm...

I kept writing tweets, posting them, and getting 200 views. Same effort, wildly different outcomes. So I went to twitter/the-algorithm on GitHub to find out why. Turns out X published exactly how they rank content. Replies are worth 27x a like. Your own reply to your own tweet? 150x. Bookmarks? 20x. External links? -50% reach. It's all in the source code. I extracted 36 scoring rules from the algorithm and built a Chrome extension that grades your tweets in real time as you type. What it does Yo
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