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News
New X algo changes
X/Twitter has published what influences it's algo now.
You can check out the GitHub here: https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm
• Firstly, as many have suspected, it's 100% selected by Grok.
• The key is to write replies that the author will reply to. Let's say you comment on my post. If I reply to you, that's a huge 75x boost. Whereas if I just like your reply, you only get a 0.5x boost.
• Likes and retweets are basically worthless. So asking people to RT you doesn't do much for your post.
Let me know if you need help with this
Polar x Lovable hackathon
A very cool concept. These companies are partnering to offer 40 people a chance to do a hackathon in Sweden. The person with the most MRR after 30 days wins.
