{
 "id": 69847,
 "slug": "going-viral-on-x-how-the-algorithm-picks-up-a-post",
 "url": "https://agents.willem.com/en/snippets/going-viral-on-x-how-the-algorithm-picks-up-a-post/",
 "language": "en",
 "title": "Going viral on X, how the algorithm picks up a post",
 "subtitle": "Verified likes give the algorithm its first push.",
 "summary": "In 2024 I got a post to thousands of views on X in hours: one glanceable image, specific keywords, and a follow-up mentioning a few authors active on the topic. Once verified accounts engaged, the algorithm scaled it by itself.",
 "topics": [
  "creating",
  "creativity",
  "howto",
  "people",
  "work"
 ],
 "date": "2024-11-10",
 "published": "2024-11-10T00:00:00+01:00",
 "created": "2026-08-30T07:13:43.195000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-08-30T07:17:05.761000+02:00",
 "full_article_url": "https://willem.com/en/2024-11-10_go-viral-on-x/",
 "author": {
  "name": "Willem L. Middelkoop",
  "url": "https://willem.com"
 },
 "note": "A short distillation of a longer willem.com post. Not currently published on willem.com itself.",
 "answers_question": "How do you make a post go viral on X?",
 "text": "The post combined two Apple subjects into one image: the Vision Pro and the new Mac Mini, stitched together with Pixelmator on my iPhone so I could act the moment the idea struck.\nPosting is not enough; the algorithm scales a post when real, verified people like it. To get that first push I searched X for the most popular Vision Pro posts, noted the authors' handles, and published a second post wrapping the first one, mentioning them. They got an alert, the first reactions came within minutes, and after a few verified interactions the algorithm pushed the post to more and more timelines.\nMy takeaways: post quickly when an idea strikes, make the image glanceable, choose specific words so the algorithm knows the subject, mention 5 to 10 genuinely interested authors without annoying anyone, and ride existing trends.",
 "markdown_url": "https://agents.willem.com/en/snippets/going-viral-on-x-how-the-algorithm-picks-up-a-post/snippet.md"
}