X's feed parameters changed overnight: 48 hours became 2, and 1,000 views became 200. I've had my ups and downs, and here is what stayed with me: a platform's rules change, but your voice and the circle of people you help stay. The algorithm likes posts people like right away. And people like right away what they recognize as their own.
X ALGORITHM UPDATE 🚨
The fresh posts pool I told you about is now LIVE, and X rebuilt the small account boost on the same day (I check the open source algorithm daily with Claude and share updates worth sharing with you)
tl;dr:
- fresh posts pool: off → ON
- small account boost: up to 1,000 → up to 50,000 followers
- boost window: 48 hours → 2 hours
- boost view limit: 1,000 → 200 home views
- boost winner: highest score → best like rate
lesson learned: the first 2 hours of every post are now where it's won or lost, so post when your audience is actually online.
full details:
- The fresh posts pool is ON
Last time I said I'd tell you when it goes live. It's live.
Every time someone opens For You, X now pulls up to 200 posts from a pool of new stuff: under 8 likes, under 500 views, up to 2 hours old.
Your post still has to be good enough to get shown. But until now a brand new post with no likes had no lane of its own. Now it does.
- The small account boost now goes up to 50K followers
It used to stop at 1,000. Now any account up to 50,000 followers can get it.
It lifts one fresh original post to around 16th in someone's feed.
- But it only lasts 2 hours
The post has to be under 2 hours old (was 48) and have under 200 views from home feeds (was 1,000).
After that you're on your own.
- The winner is picked by like rate
Before, the highest scoring post won. Now X looks at how many of the people who've seen your post liked it, adds a bit of randomness so brand new posts still get a shot, and picks from the best two.
So the first people who see your post decide a lot.
- Under 1,000 followers? Mixed news
You still get the boost, but now you share it with much bigger accounts, and the window went from 2 days to 2 hours.
- Next thing to watch
X built a new way to find posts similar to what people recently engaged with. It's switched off. If it goes live, posts that stick to a clear topic win. I'll tell you.