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What's going viral in AI on X
Of the 68 AI posts that went viral on X in the week of October 26 to November 1, 2026 and passed Postel's content check, 35% led with a number and 66% had a photo or video. The median one was 298 characters long, and the biggest, by @LudovicCreator, got 118 times its creator's usual views.
PostelUpdated Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 · 68 viral posts · 56 creators · how we count
The top 10
@LudovicCreator · 38.2K followers
118×their usual
Magnific Move is out: motion graphics you direct by talking. Animated charts, launch videos, logo reveals, UI demos. Describe what you want, point at what to change, switch between 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1. Every layer stays editable. I tested it on a logo reveal for a gothic…
162.8K views · Oct 29 · Video · Announces something
@code_kartik · 10.5K followers
80.3×their usual
Learn aws, kubernetes and deploy your agents on it and you are top 1% ai engineer.
98.9K views · Oct 28 · Leads with a number
@samhogan · 30.2K followers
36.1×their usual
8th day in a row of > 1 trillion tokens on OpenRouter:) lots of new stuff coming soon™️
151K views · Oct 26 · Photo · Leads with a number
@techhalla · 103.2K followers
34.6×their usual
editing stopped being the hard part Magnific Move dropped and this tutorial shows how to squeeze the most out of it 🧵
401.4K views · Oct 28 · Video
@venturetwins · 248.7K followers
33.7×their usual
Last week, I told my Grok @bot to surprise me with a gift. I said it could use up to $100 from my X Money account, and asked it to consider my tweets + our conversations to pick a good present. Look what arrived today! Even included a Halloween surprise 🎃
720.8K views · Oct 31 · Photo
@justalexoki · 37.7K followers
27.2×their usual
it's getting very hard for me to see a future where ai doesn't replace all intellectual work. like literally all of it. what then
98.8K views · Oct 28
@felixleezd · 35K followers
24.1×their usual
I don't use Figma anymore. Grok bot is our chief design engineer. I didn't hire anyone. I set up a grok bot on @bot and gave it a title: chief design engineer. It doesn't ship for me. I still approve every design, but it does basically everything else. Last week, it dug…
87.3K views · Oct 27 · Photo · A list
@BharukaShraddha · 35.8K followers
17.8×their usual
I took Cartesia’s Sales Outreach template and turned it into a health plan assistant. Instead of calling people to book demos, it answers questions about copays, deductibles, and prescriptions. Same template, completely different use case. 🧵
67.7K views · Oct 30 · Photo · Starts with I or we
@prasenx · 23.2K followers
16.3×their usual
asked claude opus 5.5 in cursor to build an open world island that runs in the browser it kept comparing its own screenshot to 341 real photos until it looked like this
22.6K views · Oct 26 · Video · Leads with a number
@NicolasZu · 8.8K followers
13.5×their usual
I have been hardcore prompting AI for 3 years now, on game dev topics mostly. The biggest leverage is knowing the vocabulary, the concepts and the game design fundamentals. It does a massive difference in output I think I will create a website where I share all of…
12.3K views · Oct 28 · Leads with a number
The openings behind them
How the 68 viral AI posts opened. 66% had a photo or video (31% a video), and 13% linked out.
| Opening | Share of viral posts |
|---|---|
| Leads with a numbera figure, amount or percentage in the opening line“Learn aws, kubernetes and deploy your agents on it and you are top 1% ai engineer.” @code_kartik on X (opens in a new tab) | 35%24 posts |
| No clear hookthe opening matches none of the other rows | 28%19 posts |
| A listthree or more lines that start with a number, dash, bullet or arrow | 13%9 posts |
| Starts with I or wethe opening line starts with I, my, we or our“I took Cartesia’s Sales Outreach template and turned it into a health plan assistant.” @BharukaShraddha on X (opens in a new tab) | 9%6 posts |
| Asks a questionthe opening line asks a question“So...what would you like to see in our future Gemma models?” @osanseviero on X (opens in a new tab) | 6%4 posts |
| Announces somethingthe opening line launches, introduces or ships something“Magnific Move is out: motion graphics you direct by talking.” @LudovicCreator on X (opens in a new tab) | 4%3 posts |
| Takes a sidethe opening line pushes back: unpopular opinion, stop, nobody, most people, overrated, is dead“Buckminster Fuller, who was wrong about a lot of things in a way that was usually more interesting than other people being right, noticed something in the 1930s that still holds true.” @Kpaxs on X (opens in a new tab) | 3%2 posts |
| Promises a how or whythe opening line starts with how, why, what or here's“What people in the tech bubble don’t understand is that AI is not as widely adopted as they imagine.” @PromptLLM on X (opens in a new tab) | 1%1 post |
How we count
Postel's library follows thousands of individual creators on X: founders, builders, writers and other people posting as themselves. Brands, news and fan accounts, politicians and aggregators are kept out. This page reads their original English posts from Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026, leaving out replies and reposts.
A post counts as viral when it gets at least 3 times its creator's usual views and 10,000 views in all. A creator's usual is the median views of their posts over the 60 days before the period ended, leaving out posts younger than three days. Comparing each post with its own creator means a big account's ordinary post doesn't count, and a small account's unusually big post does.
A model then reads every viral post, sorts it into a topic by what it's about, and leaves out politics, gossip, news about other people, health claims, get-rich pitches, giveaways and anything else this page shouldn't feature. A second, stricter model approves each post before it's shown with its creator's name. The list ranks the approved posts by how far each beat its creator's usual, one post per creator. Openings are sorted by the plain rules in the table.
Every post links to the original on X. Creators: if you'd rather your post weren't on this page, send its link through the contact form and it comes off within a few days.
Other topics
Or see what's going viral on X this week across every topic.
- Startups and founders23 viral posts passed our check last week
- Software developers30 viral posts passed our check last week
- Careers and work29 viral posts passed our check last week
- Marketing and sales15 viral posts passed our check last week
- Design10 viral posts passed our check last week
- Investing10 viral posts passed our check last week
- Content creators7 viral posts passed our check last week
Questions
What AI posts are going viral on X right now?
From Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026, 68 AI posts from 56 creators in Postel's library went viral (each got at least 3 times its creator's usual views and 10,000 views in all) and passed its content check. The 10 that beat their creator's usual by the most are on this page, with a link to each on X.
What do viral AI posts have in common?
Of the 68 AI posts that went viral on X in the week of October 26 to November 1, 2026 and passed Postel's content check, 35% led with a number and 66% had a photo or video. The median one was 298 characters long, and the biggest, by @LudovicCreator, got 118 times its creator's usual views.
How does Postel decide a post went viral?
A post counts as viral when it gets at least 3 times its creator's usual views and 10,000 views in all. A creator's usual is the median views of their posts over the 60 days before that week ended (leaving out the last three days). The topic comes from what the post is about, not from who wrote it.
How often is this page updated?
Every Tuesday. It covers the last full week (Monday to Sunday), so a topic has enough posts to show what's working.
I'm on this list. Can I have my post removed?
Yes. Send the post's link through the contact form at postel.app/contact and it comes off this page and every page like it within a few days.