Top Performers
The middle column. Top Performers is where you find tweets that are taking off, not just the ones that already took off.
It draws from the same live pool as the Live Feed, but ranks by performance instead of recency. Accelerating tweets surface first. Plateaued tweets fall to the bottom even if their raw counts are huge.
What each row shows
For every tweet in the column:
- Rank position (1, 2, 3) by whichever metric you've chosen.
- Author + content using the same tweet card layout as the Live Feed.
- Live metrics: likes, reposts, replies, views, updating in real time. The likes metric is a working like / unlike heart (see below).
- Transfer button: sends the tweet into the AI Actions queue with a tone preset, ready for a reply or quote-RT.
The column header shows aggregate stats across the visible set: total likes, total reposts, total views, count.
Like a tweet
The heart on the likes metric is interactive, same as in the Live Feed. Click it to like the tweet as your currently selected X account. Click again to unlike. The heart fills solid red with a soft glow and a springy pop the instant you click, before the network call returns, so the column reacts immediately.
A few specifics:
- The number next to the heart is the author's like count, not yours. It does not increment when you like (matching how X displays it).
- The tooltip reads Like as your selected account when idle and Unlike once you've liked it.
- The like fires from the account currently selected for posting (see Multi-account posting). With no X account selected you get a toast telling you to pick one first; nothing else happens.
- Likes run concurrently, not through the serial post worker and never count against your reply or analysis quota (see Plans).
- Each like surfaces its own row in the Execute Queue and a toast with a short excerpt of the post. A failed like rolls the heart back.
View the comments
Click a tweet's body text to open the View Comments popout. It's the same viewer used from the Live Feed and AI Actions: a large read-only window (about 80% of the screen on desktop, near full-screen on small viewports) that streams the post's replies live.
Inside:
- The focal tweet sits on the left; the comments list fills the dominant right column and is the only part that scrolls.
- You get skeleton placeholders while the first page loads, a No comments yet state when empty, an inline error with a Retry button if a fetch fails and a Load more control when there are more replies to pull.
- Each reply can be liked, replied to, retweeted or quoted. Acting on a reply spawns a fresh row in the AI Actions queue aimed at that comment.
Links inside the tweet text still navigate normally; only clicking the surrounding text opens the viewer. The viewer itself is read-only: folding the crowd's replies into a generated draft is the Analyse comments pass, which lives on the AI action row, not here (see AI Actions).
Focus mode hides this column
The dashboard header has a Focus mode toggle. Turn it on and Top Performers collapses with a smooth wipe (about 600ms): the column slides right and tucks under the AI Actions column while the Live Feed expands into the freed space. AI Actions stays put. Click the toggle again to bring Top Performers back.
It's a single persisted boolean, so the state survives reloads. The toggle only appears on the default Command Deck layout; the other layouts have their own arrangement and don't show it.
Sort options
| Metric | What it captures |
|---|---|
| Recent activity | Velocity-weighted relevance (default; what's moving right now) |
| Latest tweet | Most recently posted |
| Likes | Raw like count |
| Replies | Raw reply count |
| Reposts | Raw repost count |
| Views | Raw view count |
| Like velocity | Likes per unit time (how fast it's gaining) |
| Like acceleration | Rate of change of velocity (how fast it's gaining faster) |
| Likes / followers | Punch ratio: small accounts that hit big |
| Engagement | (likes + replies + reposts) / followers |
Time windows
Top Performers respects your global filters (see Filters). To scope to "tweets from the last 30 minutes," set a max-age filter. Every metric in the table recomputes against that window.
Requires performance data
A tweet only appears in Top Performers once Patera has captured at least one metric update for it, so velocity and acceleration can be computed. New tweets show up the moment the first engagement update arrives. That's usually within seconds of being posted.
Ship it to AI Actions
The most common flow:
- Watch a tweet climb in Top Performers.
- Click Transfer.
- The tweet appears in the AI Actions queue with whatever tone is currently selected.
- Review the generated reply, hit Execute. You're posted.
Top Performers is the funnel; AI Actions is the response.