Twitter/X
RT Groups and RTxRT Are Dead on X — Here's What Actually Works Now
A single enforcement wave in December 2025 didn't just ban accounts — it exposed how fragile the entire RT-group ecosystem always was.
Updated Aug 2026 · sourced from 10 YouTube creators and 8 operator groups
Key takeaways
- Grok 4.1 enforcement in Dec 2025 wiped 85+ large trans pages; RTxRT automation collapsed overnight.
- RT group sellers were always scam-prone; multiple operators now call them 'almost always scams.'
- SFW organic posting plus comment-baiting is the emerging replacement strategy with broader operator consensus.
- Niche content and genuine engagement beat volume automation as X's anti-bot fingerprinting tightens.
- Mass DMs still work short-term but hit hard caps; treat X as a funnel, not a destination.
The Night the Groups Went Dark
Sometime around December 15, 2025, operators running RT-for-retweet automation on X watched their dashboards go quiet. Tools broke.
Accounts vanished. One group described it simply: "Big X purge in Dec 2025: 85+ large trans pages banned; RTxRT/RT groups considered dead under Grok 4.1 moderation." [g8, g4, Dec 2025]
That's not a rumor. Two separate operator groups corroborated the same event independently within days of each other.
And yet — if you'd been paying close attention — none of this should have been a surprise.
RT Groups Were Always a Minefield
The pitch was clean: join group chats where creators mutually retweet each other, automate it with a bot, and watch subscriber counts climb. (Patryk, Nov 2024) The floor for "decent volume" was pitched at 75 groups minimum — with more always better. (Patryk, Mar 2025)
The reality was messier from the start.
Vetted creators warned years ago to always use a middleman when buying retweet groups, because even $30 batches came stuffed with bots and dead accounts. (Patryk, Sep 2024) The advice to purchase 100 groups as a "starting point" — with prices ranging from $30 to $100+ per 100 groups — assumed you could even find a legitimate seller. (Patryk, Sep 2024)
You often couldn't.
Multiple operators now describe RT group sellers flatly as "almost always scams," recommending operators do their own retweeting instead. [g2, May 2026] One vetted creator framed paid retweet services as supplements at best — like creatine, useless without an organic foundation — and said most are outright scams. (Oliver Smole, Nov 2025)
The corroboration is broad: at least four distinct operator groups across late 2025 and early 2026 flagged RT groups as either scam-prone, ban-triggering, or simply dead. [g4, g2, g8, g1, Dec 2025–May 2026]
What Grok 4.1 Actually Changed
The December 15th platform update didn't just hit the trans niche. It broke most DM and retweet automation tools across the board — including named tools like xReap and ExoPost. (Patryk, Dec 2025)
Elon Musk stated publicly he wanted to patch tools tied to DMs, retweet groups, and group chats. (Patryk, Dec 2025)
Grok 4.1's enforcement layer added something operators hadn't fully encountered before: behavioral fingerprinting that flags accounts for "inauthentic behavior" even when activity volumes seem modest. Operators report new accounts getting suspended for accepting as few as 30 Cupidbot conversations per day. [g5, April 2026] Running via API rather than UI triggers suspensions after just a handful of calls. [g5, March 2026]
One operator group put it plainly: X suspended approximately 800 million accounts over 12 months fighting manipulation, per X's own statement. [g5, March 2026]
That's not selective enforcement. That's a platform at war with its own automation layer.
The Scam Economy Inside RT Groups
Even before Grok 4.1, the RT group ecosystem had a structural problem: you were buying access to an audience you couldn't verify.
Buying X accounts with large NSFW followings from Telegram was flagged as a trap years ago — those followers are almost always fake, and they tank account performance. (habibi, May 2024) The advice to verify a purchased account before buying — checking that impressions are proportionate to follower counts, testing for shadowbans from a separate account — existed because verification was genuinely necessary. (habibi, Jan 2026)
The 100k+ follower pages listed cheaply for sale? Operators confirm those are mostly botted followers. [g6, May 2026]
And the organic growth promise of RT groups? One vetted account described a healthy benchmark as 1K retweets generating 5K+ likes. (Patryk, Sep 2024)
Poor ratios weren't a group problem, they said — fix the content and the group quality. In practice, most operators couldn't reliably fix either.
What Operators Are Actually Doing Now
Here's where the evidence gets interesting — and contested.
The clearest emerging consensus, backed by at least one group explicitly and corroborated by directional signals from several others, is this: shift to organic AI-assisted high-quality video content instead of RTxRT and non-authentic behavior. [g8, Dec 2025]
But "organic" means different things to different operators.
Comment-baiting is the most consistently recommended replacement tactic across both vetted creators and operator groups:
- Reply to high-traffic posts from mainstream niches — trucking, sports, celebrity news — not adult pages. (Oliver Smole, Sep 2024)
- Target 100+ replies per day minimum; fewer isn't worth the effort. (Patryk, Mar 2025)
- Use SFW images; content contextually tied to the post you're replying to performs best. (Patryk, Mar 2025)
- Get the blue tick so your reply surfaces near the top of viral threads. (Luca Pritchard, Dec 2024)
Vetted data shows comment-baiting attracts higher-quality subscribers than RT groups, though at lower volume. (Patryk, Nov 2024) One operator confirmed a 7.5% conversion rate (212 paid subs from 2,842 clicks) as a strong benchmark. [g1, April 2026]
SFW-first posting is gaining ground fast. One operator reported going from ~500 to 5,000 views after dropping NSFW content entirely. [g1, March 2026] Two separate groups now say SFW accounts outperform NSFW accounts on X. [g1, g4, early 2026] This aligns with a vetted creator's finding that even at the content level, posting nudes can permanently reduce reach — use an alt account as a "leak" to drive subs instead. [g2, May 2026]
Niche posting over mass volume is the other pillar. Operators describe general X traffic as low-converting outside specific kink searches, but those niche searches still work. [g1, April 2026] The advice: post 3–5 times per day mixing teasers with personality, reply to creators, quote tweet, stay active — not post-and-disappear. [g4, March 2026]
Where Operators Disagree — Sharply
This is where honest reporting gets uncomfortable. The evidence genuinely conflicts on several key points.
On whether RT groups are dead or just damaged: At least two operator groups from April–May 2026 still recommend using RT groups alongside mass DMs, with the caveat to avoid low-quality groups and NSFW content. [g2, April 2026] One group claims Xgen is the go-to software for RT automation across multiple accounts as recently as May 2026. [g2, May 2026] This directly contradicts the "RT groups are dead" position held by other operators from December 2025. Both sides have skin in the game — treat this as an unresolved split, not a settled question.
On Twitter Premium: Some operators swear Premium is required to avoid bans and access RT group features. (Patryk, Nov 2024) Others report that buying Premium triggered permanent suspension for "inauthentic accounts" with zero appeal response. [g4, Dec 2025] A third camp says Premium improves trust and analytics but does nothing for shadowbans or reach. [g2, May 2026] There is no clean consensus here.
On mass DMs: One operator group reports mass DMs "working well right now" for conversions in April 2026. [g1] Others report warmed, verified accounts hitting caps as low as 13 DMs per day. [g1, February 2026] X's internal credibility score (reportedly 1–500) governs action limits with no fixed numbers — meaning results vary by account history in ways operators can't fully predict. [g2, May 2026]
On conversion quality: One operator claims doing $500k with AI models on Fanvue using only Twitter organic traffic. [g2, Dec 2025] Another reports 5,000–12,000 API conversations daily yielding near-zero subs. [g5, Dec 2025] Same platform, wildly different results — the difference appears to be content quality and funnel design, not volume.
The Trans Page Purge: A Canary for Everyone
The 85+ trans pages wiped in December 2025 weren't just a niche story. [g8, Dec 2025] They were the most visible proof that X's enforcement had evolved past simple spam detection into pattern-based behavioral targeting.
Accounts running identical automation patterns — same bot, same timing, same content fingerprints — got swept together. Operators report that even reusing one image across more than two accounts starts creating linkage risks, and after months X chains the bans. [g1, April 2026; g2, May 2026]
The findom niche has its own warning sign: Twitter findom traffic is now reportedly full of scam "paypigs" pushing fake check deposits. [g3, April 2026] One data point from one group — treat it as a flag, not a fact.
The Bluesky Signal
One vetted creator flagged Bluesky in early 2025 as functioning like early organic Twitter — hashtags still driving virality, retweet groups just emerging, US audience concentration high. (Patryk, Jan 2025) A researcher tracking sex worker communities noted she's largely moving her presence to Bluesky as X becomes less viable for those communities. (SWCEO, Dec 2024)
Bluesky isn't a replacement yet. But the early-mover framing is the same one that made X valuable in the first place. (Bjorn Olsen, Jan 2024)
The Practical Bottom Line
If you're still running RTxRT automation the way you set it up in 2024, you're operating on borrowed time — and probably already losing accounts.
What the weight of evidence actually supports, right now:
- Comment-baiting at 100+ replies/day on mainstream (not adult) high-traffic posts, SFW images only, blue tick enabled. [Y54, Y56, Y100]
- SFW-first main account, with a separate alt running explicit content treated as a leak funnel. [g1, g2, 2026]
- Niche content over mass volume — X's internal credibility scoring punishes inauthentic behavior more than it rewards raw output. [g2, May 2026]
- Slow account warmup: scroll-only for several days, ramp replies gradually (5 → 10 → 15 → 30), never burst. [g1, g2, early 2026]
- RT groups if you use them at all: vet heavily, use a middleman, expect attrition, never make them your primary strategy. [Y2, Y102]
- Mass DMs as a secondary lever only, on separate accounts, never your main. [g1, March 2026]
The operators who adapted earliest — moving to AI-assisted video, niched organic posting, and genuine engagement — are the ones still standing after December 2025. [g8, Dec 2025]
Everyone else is buying replacement accounts.
Sources
On the record (YouTube creators):
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Community intelligence: 133 operator claims aggregated from 8 separate private OFM groups (Dec 2025–May 2026), corroboration counted across groups. Group identities are withheld to protect sources; browse the underlying intel in the Community Intel Wiki.