@LinusEkenstam: This is how the algorithm can completely destroy your reach over night. This is the last: Left: 3 months Right: 2 weeks…
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A creator describes how Twitter's algorithm drastically reduces reach after a viral post, with a 85-95% drop in metrics, and asks for transparency on how to recover from this suppression.
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This is how the algorithm can completely destroy your reach over night.
This is the last: Left: 3 months Right: 2 weeks
Super consistent 85-95% drop on all metrics.
everything after a viral post going ballistic, I tried everything, cool down, delete low quality posts, block bot accounts.
Kept posting after cool down, nothing really breaks through.
Short hot takes
Long form with good signal
Viral potential post
Core audience value post
What bothers me here is that 48h after posting a mega viral post I get suppressed back to the Stone Age.
This follow previous situations I’ve had with the grok powered algorithm. Where it feels like tweepCred falls far below a certain level, and you’re locked into a low reach prison with every effort to break out is making it harder and harder to do so.
I’m asking for transparency on what we can do as content creators when this happens. I don’t want to spam my way out of this. I’d like to know, if I did something wrong, how I can address it, take the responsibility of algorithmic suppression for what ever the length is.
But this limbo is most likely going to make me leave the platform.
Tripple Nuked…
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Ohh, I forgot I’ll be in San Francisco next week if anyone is going to be around
I’m also not alone in this algo pain, obviously given then buzz today…
if you’re just here and want to find cool kids, my buddy Jerrod is awesome.
did it come backB
I don’t chase neither, but I worked my ass off for this, this is my full time job
Dario, nice to meet you, I did not say smaller accounts should not get reach. It’s not even what I’m talking about.
I’m saying that because of one bad post triggered a complete shutdown of my account.
93% loss of reach after one specific post.
And I post 3-6 times per day and have been doing for years. I know when a suspect algorithm ban is happening. this is one, but no clear actions on how to get out of it, or why it actually happened.
Only guesswork and assumptions.
I have a real job.
exactly this
did you see the stats screenshot? this is not about overall algorithm, it’s about getting reachthrottles because of a single post breaking the tweepCred score.
Sure the algorithm is lowkey odd, but this is about how from one day to the next, 92% of my reach is blocked
yes, both claude and grok explained the mechanism in detail after having access to the opensource repo on the algorithm.
I’m pretty sure I know what happened but it’s unclear how to get out of it
No this is not it Alex, I got striked hard with a algo suppression. it happened after the GPT Image-2 posts. that brought trolls, mass blocks and reporting
You clearly don’t know my content if that’s your takeaway.
I post ~200 pieces of content a month, 30/30/40 split.
30% lifting up other creators 30% signal and takes and random observation 40% value posts and tutorials
this post was the issue this time
https://x.com/linusekenstam/status/2048426035541135437?s=46…
Nope.
This is the post in question that made it all go south
sorry
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