We just fired the keyboard. two taps on the back of your iPhone → three replies to choose from. we built a Tonebird.ai iOS shortcut that works with Back Tap. once set up, it screenshots the conversation on your screen, reads the context, and drafts 3 replies in your tone. pick one. copy. paste. send. your group chat gets a reply. your thumbs get a day off.

X ALGORITHM UPDATE (for accounts under 500 followers) 🚨 I have 236 followers. So today I read X's open-source algorithm to answer one question: what does it actually do for small accounts? More than you'd think. But only for 2 hours. Here's how it works, straight from the code (updated Oct 21–24): 1. Every time someone opens For You, X saves one seat for a small account. It picks ONE post that is: • from an account with ≤50K followers • an original (not a reply, not a repost) • under 2 hours old • seen fewer than 200 times on Home …and lifts it to around #16 in that person's feed. That seat is how strangers find you. At 236 followers, my followers aren't my distribution. That seat is. 2. The seat goes to the post with the best like rate. X runs a tiny lottery on every eligible post: likes ÷ views. Everyone starts at an assumed 1.5%. • 0 likes in 100 views → you look like ~0.5%. You lose. • 3 likes in 100 views → ~2.5%. You're in the race. The top 2 lottery draws go head to head on predicted engagement. The winner gets the seat. So your first 100–200 views are an audition, and the audience is mostly your own followers. 3. This week's update made the audition fairer. X can only score 2,800 posts each time you open the feed. Before, it took them first come, first served, and brand-new posts (under 2h, under 8 likes, under 500 views) were at the back of the line. They got cut first. Now every source gets cut by the same %. New posts are no longer the first thing dropped. 4. What each reaction is worth (weights on predicted probability): • Copy-link share: 20 • Reply from a mutual: 20 (5 + a 15 mutual boost) • Reply / quote / DM share: 5 • Follow: 4 • Repost: 1 • Like: 0.66 • Bookmark: 0 And what a bad reaction costs: • "Not interested": −52 • Mute: −59 • Report: −234 A 1% chance someone taps "not interested" cancels out an 80% chance they like it. Reaching the wrong crowd is worse than reaching nobody. What I'm changing at 236 followers: → Originals over replies. Replies and reposts can't win the seat. → Post when my people are awake. The 2-hour clock starts when I hit post, not when anyone sees it. → One strong post > three okay ones. They'd compete for the same audition. → Write for my 236, not for everyone. Their like rate is my ticket to strangers. → Talk with mutuals. Their replies count 4× a stranger's. → Make it worth pasting into a group chat. That's the 20. Source: github.com/xai-org/x-algorit… Bookmarks are worth 0 to the algorithm. Copy-link shares are worth 20. If this helped, you know which button to press 🐦

the bird has been doing all the talking lately, so hi, it’s me 👋 i’m one of the humans behind Tonebird.ai. we’re building it for that message you keep opening, thinking “i’ll reply later,” and closing again. it remembers your relationships and the conversation context, then drafts a reply that sounds like you. also, we’re giving away gift cards, keycaps, and a smart ring this Halloween 🎃 plus a free Pro offer! everything’s in my pinned post. giveaway ends Oct 31. you can ghost your inbox for another minute. come say hi first.

The scariest thing this Halloween? The message you're ghosting. 👻 Ghosting Awards 🏆 Drop the scariest message you ever got, ghosted or not. Prizes: 👻 Scariest Message → smart ring 💀 Most Cursed → giant keycap light 🕯️ Most Relatable → keycap set 🎲 Random draw → keycap set To enter: 1. Follow @Tonebird_ai 2. Repost this 3. Reply with the message (blur the names). Your boss's Friday "quick question". Your ex's 2am "u up?" 🎁 Plus: everyone gets 1 month of ToneBird Pro, free ($40 value) ↓ Ends Oct 31. Winners Nov 1.

Everyone's racing to be AI-native. Fewer people are asking what gets lost along the way. The answer: friction. The arguments, the pushback that only happens when humans actually talk to each other. Agents don't disagree with you. They execute your spec. At the earliest stage, your spec is almost always wrong. Look at @PodiumHQ. The second run to $150M took 2.5 years, but it didn't start from zero. It started with 8 years of judgment built through customer calls, failed bets, and internal debates. AI didn't create that judgment. It made acting on it faster. That's the trap. AI compresses execution. It can't compress knowing what to execute on. A lot of teams automate to look AI-native, not to get better. Automating before you understand the problem just locks in your wrong assumptions faster. Incumbents have judgment but no speed. Startups have speed but no judgment yet. 
The winners will compound judgment fastest. Automate execution aggressively. Protect the arguments on purpose. AI is a multiplier. A multiplier on zero context is still zero.

me: tonebird, make this safe to send to my boss tonebird: “Thanks for the feedback! Happy to discuss.” me: perfect my original draft: #a̖̗̘̙̜̝ͣͩͧͫͦͬͥͪͭͨͣͩͧͫͦͬͥͪͭͨͣͩͧͫͦͬͥͪͭͨͣͩͧͫͦͬͥͪͭͨͣͩͧͫͦͬͥͪͭͨͣͩͧͫͦͬͥͪͭͨ

You don’t talk to your investor the way you talk to your group chat. So why does your AI? We spent weeks reading Reddit threads from people who live in their inbox. Here’s what they figured out ↓ and most importantly, try tonebird.ai :)

My AI video career has r eached the “give two birds a podcast” stage. meet Rosie. founder, does her own sales, 300 unread messages. still said yes to a podcast 😭 Today’s topic: why does asking AI to help with a reply involve explaining your entire relationship with someone first? That’s what we’re working on with Tonebird. it remembers who you’re talking to, what you promised, and how you talk to them, so the draft starts with that context. you still hit send. Tonebird Talks, ep. 01 🐦🎙️

Okay i’m officially calling myself an AI creator on X now. nobody appointed me but here we are. my latest film: a founder at 11:48 pm, an unreasonable number of notifications, and a small green bird who somehow knows what’s going on. been making little films for Tonebird.ai about the situations we’re building it for. this one’s for everyone whose “one last reply” somehow became another hour at their desk. the bird is getting suspiciously comfortable being the lead.