Follow author — a positive ranking signal
Predicted probability this post makes the viewer follow you — the compounding action is a first-class scoring term.
Last public weight: none — this head first appeared publicly in the 2026 release; no weight value has ever been published.
2026 weight: withheld — all current weights live in an
unpublished params module. The weights story →
What actually moves it
The post that best predicts a follow is one that promises more of the same: a clear lane, demonstrated repeatedly. Random virality doesn't signal followability.
Where it sits in the formula
Phoenix (a Grok-1-architecture transformer, phoenix/README.md)
predicts P(follow_author) per viewer from that viewer’s own
engagement history — not from your post’s running like-count. The prediction is
multiplied by its weight and summed with the other 21 terms, then the
author-diversity decay and
out-of-network multiplier apply.
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