the biggest lie about growing on X is “write high quality posts”

The annoying part is that “high quality content” sounds so reasonable that I wasted months believing it.

Early of the year I was spending like 80% of my time on researching in my niche, trying to write useful content. But my followers barely changed, views were whatever, and I can only hope the next post will get the X algo exposure.

Then a KOL friend told me I was doing the wrong way. I should spend way more time on replying.

Not random “great point!” replies. Actual replies, Opinions, disagreements, extra examples, useful pushback. The original poster or other people can see there’s a real person behind reply. Then people reply back, check your profile, and sometimes follow.

Anyway, I tried it seriously. My analytics reached around 100k+ impressions daily, one day near 180k impressions. The replies chart was basically carrying everything. Hundreds of replies per day.

But this is exhausting. I write 60 good replies for one hour because I have to actually read the post, think, and not sound like a bot, I almost spent 10 hours a day on X. So I ended up building a small X productivity tool for myself to make that workflow less painful.

Maybe this is obvious to everyone else, but has anyone here grown through replies instead of posting? And how do you do it without burning out?