Grok Flooded With Requests to Rank X Users’ Mutual Followers

Grok, the artificial-intelligence assistant integrated into X, has become the subject of a sudden burst of interest, with scores of users asking it to rank their mutual followers by increasingly eccentric criteria over July 7–8. Queries documented during the 24-hour period sought top-10 or top-20 leaderboards for everything from intelligence and ‘propensity to start a successful cult’ to likelihood of falling for a crypto scam or enthusiasm for podcasts. The flurry of requests highlights users’ expectations that the chatbot can parse public interaction data to generate detailed, personalized social graphs. While X has not made a formal announcement about new ranking functions, the volume and variety of the posts suggest a viral test of Grok’s analytical abilities.