The biggest mistake X made was taking away the value of followers Your content used to be distributed to your followers regardless of the "quality" Now it gets graded on time spent, engagement, etc And if it doesn't perform well within the first batch of people, the post will get nuked even if you have hundreds of thousands of followers I can't tell you how many people I used to see on my timeline that I don't see anymore And it's because the algo didn't view their content as optimized enough to surface to more people But I never followed the person because their content was optimized, I followed because I liked what the person had to say