DevDiary

These next two weeks I’m taking one for the team! 😄 Quick background: I’ve been paid for posting on X in the past. After April 11, my earnings dropped ~90%. I’m completely fine with that — I’m extremely grateful to Elon. I was here long before monetization, and I’d stay even if it disappeared. X is still my favorite platform. That said, I strongly suspect many accounts (including mine) are now effectively blacklisted. I want to test it. Over the past two weeks I increased pure original content by ~30% (streams, gaming clips, photos, questions, and interactions). Impressions stayed similar, but my earnings fell even further. There was zero benefit. I don’t think original content is the issue — many small accounts are doing well with it, and I’ve seen plenty of examples. **My experiment:** For the next two weeks I will post **only 100% original content**. If you enjoy my posts and feel comfortable, please retweet them. If I get little or nothing, it supports my theory: either the AI can’t reliably detect original content, or my account (and many others) is blacklisted regardless of what I post. At the end I’ll share the results and write a wrap-up article. I’ll tag relevant affected accounts. This will probably cost me meaningful earnings (and Soba’s cat food money 😅), but someone has to run the test. Thanks for reading! (I wrote this in my native language and used AI to translate/polish the English.)” -—-

Maybe the biggest problem with the X algorithm is this: If I follow someone, it means I WANT to see their posts. Not what the algorithm thinks is “better” for me. An account with 300k followers getting 3k views is not “the market deciding.” That’s distribution being controlled. Virality should boost content. Not make creators disappear 48h later.

True, my monetization has been gone for over a month and i still show up here daily. In the last month i networked with more founders than i ever expected, learned a lot of new stuff and met some really good people here too. Some of the things i got to experience and learn genuinely can’t even be explained properly in words. it’s not all about money tbh