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The 25 most-shared posts about Energy on X, and what they have in common

154 posts about Energy in the library, 504.9K likes between them. The 25 that travelled furthest, how they open, and what the analysis says they share.

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There are 154 posts about Energy in the library, with 504,896 likes between them. These are the 25 that travelled furthest. The list is the easy part; what they have in common is the reason to read it.

The 25

  1. @SeanSafyre — “Found an iPhone on the side of the road... Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA12…” — 77,076 likes · open
  2. @atroyn — “Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:” — 41,270 likes · open
  3. @DigiEconomist — “Some statistics to start the year:” — 38,745 likes · open
  4. @POTUS46Archive — “I just imposed a series of tariffs on goods made in China:” — 37,031 likes · open
  5. @MKBHD — “NEW VIDEO - Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable” — 27,605 likes · open
  6. @mtgreenee — “How dare the peasants complain about data centers stealing their water and driving the cost of electricity!!” — 25,008 likes · open
  7. @Nomads4Pritzker — “Famously, human learning takes very little energy. A toddler learns thousands of words and an entire grammar while eating nothing but ras…” — 17,656 likes · open
  8. @Grimezsz — “Suddenly concocting anti Indian energy out of nowhere is embarrassing yall.” — 15,077 likes · open
  9. @sama — “wow so far DMs in a shockingly even dead heat between” — 11,037 likes · open
  10. @darlingstrawbie — “🚨 to anyone who uses patreon 🚨” — 10,239 likes · open
  11. @_kumbhkaran — “Sundar Pichai is charging $13.99 a month for YouTube Premium from US users, while in India its price is ₹149/month, which is just about $1.…” — 9,954 likes · open
  12. @deedydas — “BREAKING DeepSeek just let the world know they make $200M/yr at 500%+ profit margin.” — 9,744 likes · open
  13. @PeterAttiaMD — “If you want perspective on how how people <35 die in the US, relative to COVID, take a look. It would be nice if we placed a proportionate…” — 9,174 likes · open
  14. @willahmed — “ANNOUNCING THE ALL-NEW WHOOP” — 9,053 likes · open
  15. @MKBHD — “OnePlus 13 Review: The Bar Has Been Set! This phone has incredible battery, great chip and a super bright display... and so will LOTS of ot…” — 8,524 likes · open
  16. @MKBHD — “NEW VIDEO: The leaks were right. This is the Pixel 9 design... boring. BUT I gotta give credit where due: Biggest battery ever in a Pixel!…” — 7,832 likes · open
  17. @manfightdragon — “"we made a program that vaguely and inaccurately imagines what it might look like if you were playing quake 2 right now! It requires all th…” — 7,022 likes · open
  18. @pelositracker — “Well isn't this convenient...” — 6,574 likes · open
  19. @ResonantJustice — “The moment the lights came out, you would’ve thought it was Spider-Man: No Way Home. This crowd’s energy was INSANE tonight 😭” — 6,178 likes · open
  20. @AnthropicAI — “We're committing to cover electricity price increases from our data centers.” — 5,543 likes · open
  21. @buccocapital — “For 50 yrs we treated the supremacy of asset-light businesses as a permanent economic law” — 5,405 likes · open
  22. @POTUS46Archive — “I know many are skeptical about the need for clean energy.” — 5,072 likes · open
  23. @Yuchenj_UW — “holy shit, DeepSeek is able to get 73.7k tokens/s input and 14.8k tokens/s output throughput per H800 node!” — 4,748 likes · open
  24. @wk057 — “Tesla really fires me up sometimes.😡🧵” — 3,974 likes · open
  25. @GoogleCloud_IN — “A new AI hub in Visakhapatnam to accelerate India's transformation 🇮🇳” — 3,721 likes · open

3 of the 25 are from @MKBHD, 2 from @POTUS46Archive — the rest are 20 different accounts. A subject with one dominant voice reads differently from one with many; this one has many.

What they have in common

17 of the 25 open with an observation, and 6 with a number. The mechanism the analysis names most often is specificity — exact numbers, named tools, precise dates — details that make a claim feel observed rather than asserted — in 6 of them. 10 of the 25 put a figure in the first line. The median post is 267 characters long — a single post, not a thread.

Three to study

@SeanSafyre — 77,076 likes

Found an iPhone on the side of the road... Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282 Survived a 16,000 foot drop perfectly in tact!

  • Opens with a short, self-contained line that is easy to take in at a glance.
  • Ends on a short line that is easy to quote and repeat.
  • The opening line stands alone, so it reads completely before the post is expanded.

@atroyn — 41,270 likes

Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:

  • Opens with a short, self-contained line that is easy to take in at a glance.
  • Follows a clear Hook → List → List shape, so the reader always knows where they are.
  • Ends on a short line that is easy to quote and repeat.

@DigiEconomist — 38,745 likes

Some statistics to start the year:

  • Opens with a short, self-contained line that is easy to take in at a glance.
  • Follows a clear Hook → Context → Landing shape, so the reader always knows where they are.
  • The opening line stands alone, so it reads completely before the post is expanded.

How to write one

  • Preserve the Hook → Landing structure and the plain observation opening. Replace the subject matter entirely with the writer’s own product, story and numbers.
  • Preserve the Hook → List → List structure and the plain observation opening. Replace the subject matter entirely with the writer’s own product, story and numbers.
  • Keep the subject and change everything else: the facts, the figures and the voice have to be yours. What transfers is where the hook lands and how the second line earns it.

Filter the library to Energy, ordered by likes to read the rest, or remix the top three with your own product as the subject.

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