I read X's open-sourced ranking algorithm. Here's what actually decides who sees your posts.

I ship products solo, which means I'm also the marketing department, which I'm bad at. So instead of guessing, I did the thing a developer does when the docs are bad: I read the source. X open-sourced its ranking algorithm, and the engagement weights are sitting right there, and they explain almost everything about why a new account gets zero views.

Here's the part that matters.

The weights

X scores posts for your timeline using a set of engagement weights. The relevant ones:

like = 0.5