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

There are 898 posts about Engineering in the library, with 3,733,463 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

@comrade_kumar_ — “For those confused why the US state and Silicon Valley are having a meltdown on twitter today.” — 323,216 likes · open
@claudeai — “You can now enable Claude to use your computer to complete tasks.” — 137,082 likes · open
@claudeai — “We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.” — 128,999 likes · open
@chrispavlovski — “Google just found out that they can't rig the search market to exclude their competitors anymore.” — 89,592 likes · open
@elonmusk — “Starlink V3 satellites have >10X bandwidth of V2 and there’ll be >10X launched, which means >100X more bandwidth.” — 76,046 likes · open
@ClaudeDevs — “New in Claude Code: your sessions can now message each other.” — 60,209 likes · open
@claudeai — “Introducing Claude Managed Agents: everything you need to build and deploy agents at scale.” — 56,370 likes · open
@samhenrigold — “Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?” — 52,063 likes · open
@claudeai — “Introducing Claude Code Security, now in limited research preview.” — 48,978 likes · open
@rbuckton — “After 18 years at Microsoft, with roughly a decade of that time working on TypeScript, I have unfortunately been let go in the latest round…” — 48,263 likes · open
@claudeai — “New in Claude Code: Remote Control.” — 44,147 likes · open
@claudeai — “Effective today, we are:” — 43,992 likes · open
@FFmpeg — “FFmpeg is moving to Rust 🦀” — 43,368 likes · open
@ClaudeDevs — “Usage limits are up, effective today we're:” — 40,763 likes · open
@ClaudeDevs — “Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issu…” — 39,414 likes · open
@BasedTorba — “This “tech labor shortage” is total nonsense. They think you’re stupid. If you’re a White male engineer in this country and you’re unemploy…” — 39,180 likes · open
@claudeai — “New in Claude Code: auto mode.” — 38,728 likes · open
@claudeai — “Introducing Claude Science, a new app designed with every stage of research in mind.” — 35,632 likes · open
@sama — “o3 and o4-mini are super good at coding, so we are releasing a new product, Codex CLI, to make them easier to use.” — 35,521 likes · open
@deepseek_ai — “🚀 DeepSeek-R1 is here!” — 35,182 likes · open
@claudeai — “New for financial services: ready-to-run Claude agent templates for building pitches, conducting valuation reviews, closing the books at mo…” — 33,909 likes · open
@gvanrossum — “I decided that retirement was boring and have joined the Developer Division at Microsoft. To do what? Too many options to say! But it’ll ma…” — 32,248 likes · open
@cherrikissu — “Can websites please stop the trend of giving error messages that are like "OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boin…” — 29,986 likes · open
@sama — “twitter hype is out of control again.” — 28,133 likes · open
@Nigel_Farage — “🚨 GB News has won in the High Court against Ofcom—the first time Ofcom has lost a judicial review of a broadcasting code decision.” — 27,895 likes · open

9 of the 25 are from @claudeai, 3 from @ClaudeDevs — the rest are 12 different accounts. A subject with one dominant voice reads differently from one with many; this one has a few.

What they have in common

18 of the 25 open with an observation, and 3 with an announcement. 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 4 of them. 4 of the 25 put a figure in the first line. The median post is 252 characters long — a single post, not a thread.

Three to study

@comrade_kumar_ — 323,216 likes

For those confused why the US state and Silicon Valley are having a meltdown on twitter today.
— @comrade_kumar_, 323,216 likes · open the post

Uses concrete numbers instead of vague claims, which makes it credible and quotable.
Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.

@claudeai — 137,082 likes

You can now enable Claude to use your computer to complete tasks.
— @claudeai, 137,082 likes · open the post

Addresses the reader directly, so it reads as written for them.
Follows a clear Hook → Context → Landing shape, so the reader always knows where they are.
Ends on a short line that is easy to quote and repeat.

@claudeai — 128,999 likes

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.
— @claudeai, 128,999 likes · open the post

Written from experience rather than as advice, which is harder to argue with.
Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.

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 → Context → Landing structure and the speaks directly to you 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 Engineering, ordered by likes to read the rest, or remix the top three with your own product as the subject.