Topics
The 25 most-shared posts about Growth on X, and what they have in common
371 posts about Growth in the library, 465.5K likes between them. The 25 that travelled furthest, how they open, and what the analysis says they share.
Rests on:the library,the post,the post,the post,the post,the post,the post
There are 371 posts about Growth in the library, with 465,467 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
- @edzitron — “it's so funny that Musk deliberately pushed as much traffic to this video as possible, paying Mr. Beast $250k to say "it's a bit of a facad…” — 30,457 likes · open
- @rowancheung — “I think China's second DeepSeek moment is here.” — 17,418 likes · open
- @asha_shar — “In FY26, over 200 million new players came to XBOX and our games, but our business did not grow with our audience. We need to close that ga…” — 15,581 likes · open
- @ybhrdwj — “Tailwind lays of 75% of their team. the reason is so ironic:” — 14,705 likes · open
- @Patrosi73 — “not only can you make accounts for free even though they charge 20USD for skipping the waitlist (!!!) by just registering directly on fireb…” — 13,178 likes · open
- @andyfang — “Today we're opening up the DoorDash CLI in limited beta.” — 12,723 likes · open
- @Geiger_Capital — “Apple Q1 revenue is $124.3 Billion.” — 10,473 likes · open
- @foundmyfitness — “Exercise causes muscles to act like a sponge and take up kynurenine, preventing its conversion to a neurotoxic agent implicated in depressi…” — 9,863 likes · open
- @AnthropicAI — “Anthropic is acquiring @bunjavascript to further accelerate Claude Code’s growth.” — 9,364 likes · open
- @thsottiaux — “A little secret. About 5% of our production traffic is on the Pi harness, about another 5% is on OpenCode. Reminder you can use your ChatGP…” — 8,531 likes · open
- @eastdakota — “Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bot…” — 8,296 likes · open
- @sama — “More than 1 million people downloaded Codex App in the first week.” — 7,014 likes · open
- @foundmyfitness — “Belly fat is high in a type of adipose tissue called visceral fat, which secretes growth factors that promote cancer growth.” — 5,919 likes · open
- @amitisinvesting — “woah” — 5,773 likes · open
- @chetanp — “JetBrains, a Prague based developer tools company behind IntelliJ, in 2018:” — 5,769 likes · open
- @benhylak — “meta, on the other hand, has a long list of inventions:” — 5,448 likes · open
- @thdxr — “on the upcoming deepseek price increase” — 5,437 likes · open
- @sahilypatel — “manus moved to singapore to escape chinese restrictions and agreed to a $2 billion acquisition by meta” — 4,723 likes · open
- @Acyn — “Powell: The level of tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated, and the same is likely to be true of the e…” — 4,588 likes · open
- @business — “A viral moment of Nvidia’s Jensen Huang having chimaek (fried chicken and beer) in South Korea may have made investors hungry as well.” — 4,547 likes · open
- @GergelyOrosz — “A company that "gets" its customers: Cloudflare offers functionality to block AI crawlers, which give zero value to any site (in fact, take…” — 4,267 likes · open
- @ns123abc — “🚨 Cursor CEO response to OpenAI:” — 4,141 likes · open
- @dhh — “So obviously we both furiously signup for the fucking $25/month credit-check bullshit shakedown that is TransUnion. Maybe someone stole my…” — 4,133 likes · open
- @GergelyOrosz — “Confirmed that Anthropic - as of now - has removed Claude Code from new Pro signups. This is what the pricing page looks like.” — 3,967 likes · open
- @BlakeSNeff — “One of the most interesting tidbits in the viral Compact story on DEI is how foreign whites are twice as likely to get tenure in academia,…” — 3,953 likes · open
23 different accounts, no one of them more than twice. This is a subject people write about, not a subject one person owns.
What they have in common
20 of the 25 open with an observation, and 4 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 7 of them; reciprocity in 3. 11 of the 25 put a figure in the first line. The median post is 258 characters long — a single post, not a thread.
Three to study
@edzitron — 30,457 likes
it's so funny that Musk deliberately pushed as much traffic to this video as possible, paying Mr. Beast $250k to say "it's a bit of a facade"
- 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.
- Quotes someone directly, which makes the moment concrete rather than summarised.
@rowancheung — 17,418 likes
I think China's second DeepSeek moment is here.
- Opens with a short, self-contained line that is easy to take in at a glance.
- Follows a clear Hook → Context → Context → Landing shape, so the reader always knows where they are.
- Ends on a short line that is easy to quote and repeat.
@asha_shar — 15,581 likes
In FY26, over 200 million new players came to XBOX and our games, but our business did not grow with our audience. We need to close that gap by investing in what players value. That will take time, but we expect to return to growth by the end of FY27.
- Leads with a specific number, which is concrete enough to be worth a second of attention.
- 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 structure and the plain observation opening. Replace the subject matter entirely with the writer’s own product, story and numbers.
- Preserve the Hook → Context → Context → Landing 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 Growth, ordered by likes to read the rest, or remix the top three with your own product as the subject.