The problem I keep complaining about with my X/Twitter account isn’t engagement. It’s impressions. Totally different thing. My content demonstrably doesn’t suck and people are interested engaging with it and me (I have the metrics to prove it). The problem is the algorithm is actively preventing my content from being shown to my audience at all (even with Premium).
A post with 20%+ engagement only hitting 1/170 of my followers’ eyeballs over the span of its first hour isn’t “people don’t like you.” It’s not the time of day I posted it. It’s not if it had a fucking image (it did).
That’s not just “the algorithm didn’t favor this post”—it’s functionally impossible and mathematically absurd under normal distribution.
It’s “@X has nuked your account and salted the earth with its ashes.”
Furthermore, many followers have reported they don’t see my posts organically in their feed and even my replies get hidden from conversations. Even with strong engagement I’m not just buried in the For You algorithm. I’m not even there to begin with. Sometimes my posts don’t even show up in my own damn timeline.
The particularly fucked part is there’s no meaningful appeal process to @XEng for whatever chicanery got me shadowbanned and @premium support is worse than useless. They deny it’s happening, won’t tell me why I’m suppressed, gaslight me me about my engagement rates (hello, I have the analytics right fucking here), and won’t explain what would fix it.
So no, I’m not whining about low engagement. I’m pissed about algorithmic suppression applied to the point that this account, which I’m paying for, is functionally dead.
It’s not just algorithmic chicanery. It’s fraud.
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