In case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted here in a few days, it is because I am determining whether my X.com account is capable of pre-2022 virality. Someone, maybe X.com staff, gifted me a Premium Plus account on X.com. That was at the same time that a tweet that I made to Elon Musk went absolutely viral. Following that, a tweet I made to President Trump was retweeted by Musk himself. This suggests that I am on the X.com radar, which in turn suggests that my account might have been unthrottled. So I am now just trying to see if that is the case. I suspect not. I have certainly got a bump because my follower numbers ballooned from 48,000 to 66,000 in the space of a month, most of that being in the space of a couple of days. But I just don’t know whether the effects will last.

To make a proper test I actually need try rather hard to see whether a well-written, timely, and otherwise excellent tweet will actually prove popular. The jury is out on that.