X growth strategy
Skill mikaelaldy/x-algorithm-skills/skills/growth/x-growth-strategy
Create an X account growth strategy from public algorithm signals. Use when planning positioning, content pillars, audience graph, and weekly growth experiments.From its SKILL.md
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X Growth Strategy
Use this when the user wants to grow an X account deliberately, not just post more.
The Loop
- Pick a retrieval neighborhood.
- Publish posts that earn multiple positive signals.
- Reply under accounts whose audience should overlap with yours.
- Convert profile clicks into follows.
- Review analytics weekly.
- Double down on winners.
Build The Strategy
1. Positioning
Write:
- who the account helps
- what outcome it helps them get
- what topics it will repeat
- why the author is credible
Bad: “AI enthusiast sharing thoughts.” Good: “Final-year ML student building in public toward FIRE, sharing practical AI workflows for broke technical students.”
2. Retrieval Neighborhood
List:
- 20-50 adjacent accounts
- 5 recurring topic phrases
- 5 audience problems
- 3 communities or scenes
- 3 anti-topics to avoid
3. Signal Portfolio
Plan a week with:
- Dwell posts: breakdowns, lessons, frameworks, stories with payoff.
- Reply posts: specific questions, tradeoffs, unpopular-but-defensible opinions.
- Share posts: templates, checklists, resource lists, visual summaries.
- Follow posts: proof of work, series, clear expertise.
4. Feedback Loop
For every winning post:
- reply to comments quickly
- turn best replies into posts
- make a part 2 within 24-48 hours
- log hook, topic, format, and outcome
Output
Return:
- Account promise
- Target audience
- Content pillars
- Retrieval neighborhood
- 7-day growth plan
- Daily reply plan
- Metrics to track
- Experiments for the week
Operating Principle
Treat the public X algorithm as a signal map, not a cheat code. Optimize for posts and replies that earn useful positive actions (dwell, replies, reposts, shares, profile clicks, follows) while avoiding negative actions (not interested, mute, block, report, fast skips).