It’s going to make the replies part really feel much less like a ‘battleground,’ X’s head of product stated.
X is rolling out a “small tweak” to spice up the visibility of your posts and replies to your mutuals, or individuals who you observe and who observe you again. The platform’s head of product, Nikita Bier, explained X’s algorithm was lacking the programming essential to make your folks’ responses present up extra prominently in your replies part. “This resulted within the reply part feeling extra like a battleground with folks you do not acknowledge,” he wrote. Bier additionally stated that the algorithm tweak will assist folks discover widespread pursuits extra simply, which individuals have apparently been asking for. X is probably going hoping that the replace might make exchanges on its platform much less poisonous and would result in extra significant conversations.
We’re rolling out a small tweak to spice up visibility of your posts to your mutuals (individuals who you observe again).
We observed this knowledge was lacking from the algo and it made your folks seem much less in your replies. This resulted within the reply part feeling extra like a…
— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) July 13, 2026
X used to have a Communities part so you may work together with people who shared the identical pursuits. Communities gave you a simple approach to observe a feed made up of solely the folks or subject material you care about. The corporate shut it down in April this yr, although, as a result of it by no means actually caught on. It was “utilized by lower than 0.4 p.c of customers — but contributed to 80 p.c of spam stories, monetary scams, and malware on X,” Bier stated again then. The characteristic was taking on a lot of the X crew’s time, “whereas the remainder of the app suffered.”
