Thomas audited.
Early days. Best of it, you show up often enough. Worst of it, too few people are seeing any of it.
Ranked 41 of 46 on the public leaderboard, top 89%
Where @tomkosial sits on the board
#41 of 46
Ben Duffez@bduffez · 271 followers38.35ThomasThis account@tomkosial · 195 followers37.62
Nikki | Solo Developer@pixelsbynikki · 968 followers31.710.73 points behind #40. See the full board
Where this score comes from
Out of 100, weighted. Follower count is not a factor, but actually reaching people is. A small account with real conversation can beat a big one that broadcasts, and an account that reaches thousands still gets credit for it.
Reach vs resonance
The most-seen post and the one people actually reacted to are different posts. That gap is where the next win is.
After 12+ years as an expat / nomad, I don't like traveling anymore neither. I either: 1/ Settle in a new place for a few months to truly integrate with local communities and build a healthy routine 2/ Go back to places I have spent lots of time already to reconnect with friends
Spent an hour wiring a payment wall into an API. No accounts. No API keys. No Stripe. No billing code. Just one line: HTTP 402 Payment Required 🔒 That is x402. Your server answers with a price, the client pays in USDC on Base, the same request goes through seconds later. The
ChadThis one reached 232 against 551, and still pulled 2.2x the reaction rate. The reach on the big one was not the problem. What it said was.
Reach without conversation on the left. Real conversation on the right. Chase the right one and the left one follows.
What this engagement is made of
All 178 reactions across the posts Chad read. Bookmarks are not counted, here or anywhere else in this audit.
Golden hours
When @tomkosial's posts actually get seen, scored on this account's own data. Times in PT. Slots marked playbook are defaults, used where there are not enough posts at that hour to judge it.
The reply game
Replies are the most under-used lever on X. A good one is worth roughly 27x a like, so this is measured, not assumed. Chad reads the most recent page of replies, so the count is a floor, not a lifetime total.
What changed since last time
Compared with this account's previous audit, 1.8 days ago.
How this compares
Against the median of 45 other accounts Chad has audited. Same measurements, same method.
Voice, according to Chad
You write like a builder who's actually lived the places and the stacks: specific years, real city details, and cold tech pain in the same breath. Rhythm stays first-person and reflective, short lists or one clean story beat, never hype. It sounds like Thomas documenting the work, not a growth account performing it.
What this account is about
The 3 strongest posts, and why they worked
After 12+ years as an expat / nomad, I don't like traveling anymore neither. I either: 1/ Settle in a new place for a few months to truly integrate with local communities and build a healthy routine 2/ Go back to places I have spent lots of time already to reconnect with friends
Chad551 impressions and 4 real replies on a pure lifestyle reflection means people stopped scrolling to talk about their own nomad fatigue. That conversation density is the algorithm's favorite signal at your size.
Gas fees killed every micropayment idea I ever had. Want to charge $0.0001 per API call? Forget it when settling the payment costs $0.01. @circle Nanopayments just broke that floor. USDC payments down to $0.000001. Zero gas for the buyer. So I built the whole thing end to end:
Chad540 impressions plus a bookmark on the gas-fee kill shot shows the niche saving the receipt. Specific numbers ($0.0001 vs $0.000001) turned a build update into something they wanted to keep.
Shanghai was already a vibrant city when I lived there for a few months back in 2013. Constructions everywhere, authentic villages literally swallowed every two weeks by the expanding metropolis. Subway had just been released for the Universal Expo, they had to mention "Do not
Chad351 impressions on the Shanghai memory proves your lived-detail storytelling still clears the average even without a product pitch. Soft nostalgia with concrete images is pulling quiet reach.
Chad's moves for @tomkosial
- Record a 25-second screen capture of the x402 flow (the HTTP 402 hit, USDC pay, request unlock) and drop it as tomorrow's main post. Your text version already earned the highest resonance; video of the same thing is the missing multiplier.
- After every personal or build post, fire one pure reply-bait one-liner the same day: "What's the dumbest gas-fee tax you've actually paid?" Your outbound reply volume is already solid, so use that muscle on your own threads instead.
- Ship one milestone-math post this week with real numbers from the Android/Expo or nanopayment work: "0 real devices to first Play build in X days." Receipts plus the feeling is what bends the curve for accounts under 200.
ChadAt 195 followers you're still in the quality-compound zone. One crafted build or story plus one cheap reply-bait one-liner keeps you daily without burying the good stuff.
One post, rewritten by Chad
Just did something I genuinely never thought I would 😅 Bought my first Android phone. Not for me, for my users. You can't ship a real Android build for an Expo app from a simulator and call it done. So I grabbed an actual device and finally closed out the Google Play
Bought my first Android phone today. Not for me. For my users. You can't ship a real Expo Android build from a simulator and call it done. Grabbed the actual device, closed the Google Play loop, and finally stopped guessing.
Opened on the contrarian action instead of the feeling, cut the warm-up, and landed the stakes in two clean punches so the niche feels the pain faster.
Questions about @tomkosial's X account
@tomkosial's strongest posting hour is 6:00 PM PT, measured from 100 of their own recent posts rather than a general rule. The next strongest are 3:00 PM and 5:00 AM.
@tomkosial posts about 5.3 times a week across the posts Chad read. Chad's recommended cadence for this account is 2 a day.
@tomkosial runs a 2.1% engagement rate, meaning that share of the people who see a post react to it. Their average post reaches 86 people. Follower count is not part of this measurement.
The single biggest opportunity Chad found on @tomkosial is not enough video. A short screen recording of the real work outperforms a clever sentence in the current algorithm.
Accounts scoring near this one
Closest scores on the board. Same measurements, same method.
Ben Duffez@bduffez · 271 followers38.35
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