Reported, not yet confirmed.
A Grok Bot that watches X lists and pings before posts take off
A podcast host's routine checks four X lists every 10 minutes so replies land while a post is still young.
You can have a Grok Bot watch the X lists you care about and tell you when a fresh post is picking up speed, so your reply lands while people are still reading. Travis Wright (@teedubya), whose bio starts "Builder of Fintech, Blockchain, Web3 & AI | Chief Web4 AI Officer", calls it "Hot Tweet Bot" and says it is the "crown jewel" of the 30 bots he runs.
What it replaces#
Before: scrolling lists and finding a good post after the conversation has moved on. After: a ping "when a post is only minutes old and gaining velocity. Not viral. About to be viral."
How it works#
From his Oct 27 article:
- The watch list: "It scans 4 of my X lists every 10 minutes."
- The schedule: a routine. "Hot Tweet Bot runs every 10 minutes."
- The output: a ping, not a reply. "Right now Hot Tweet Bot pings me." The human writes and posts the reply.
The result, in his words: "My daily X impressions were bouncing between roughly 0.5K and 5K a day. A few days after I started using Hot Tweet Bot for reply strategy, I was at 23K to 25K a day." That is self-reported and we have not checked it. The bot was already running on Oct 11: "One watches my X lists and pings me when a post starts to pop."
Good to know#
- Every 10 minutes is 144 runs a day. Cursor's routines page says "Each run spends usage" and "a short interval" can "use a week of usage in a day." A weekday, waking-hours schedule costs less.
- The article doesn't say how the bot measures "velocity." You will have to define it, for example likes per minute since posting.
- Disclosure: the article plugs the author's FourthWeb.ai, his Substack newsletter and The Bad Crypto Podcast.
Set it up in Grok Bot#
Starter prompt (ours, untested):
Set up a routine every 30 minutes on weekdays, 8 AM to 7 PM.
Each run, read the newest posts from these accounts: [handles].
Flag any post under 30 minutes old with more than [N] likes,
and message me its link, its age and why it is moving.
Skip anything you flagged before. Never reply, like or post.