As you start to pick up traction you’ll get more and more people commenting on your own posts.

This will be slow going initially - only a very small % of followers will ever comment so when you have 100 or so followers the chance of anyone commenting is low!

Don’t worry though as the techniques above, done consistently, should start to bring in followers which will in turn begin engagement on your posts.

When people do comment on your posts make sure to reply.

This tells the X algorithm that the post has high engagement. And when it knows a post has good engagement it’s more likely to show it to people. This creates a snowball effect.

Here’s a prompt for quick replies:

Act as a Twitter expert.  

Write a personal, warm reply to this comment on my post. 
Respond with an insightful or humorous observation
Keep it light and short.

No emojis
No hashtags

#Initial post#

#Comment to respond to#

For this example I used this initial post:

and this comment:

Prompt Output

Again, edit to preference.

I would personally remove the “Thanks for your insightful comment. Keep ‘em coming!” as it’s a bit much. But the central Robinson Crusoe / AI Friday simile is strong.

Should you reply to everyone?

Actually no! It’s important you don’t - X is looking for quality first and foremost.

This insightful post gives you details:

The basic gist here is that responding to low quality accounts will lower the perceived value of your account. So do not simply respond to everything, only to high quality accounts providing actual value.