How 672 AI launch posts were quoted in their first four hours, and by whom.
The newest launches with a wave page, newest first.
Six steps, each from public data. They show when public quotes of a launch post were posted and by which accounts; they never show who asked anyone to post.
AI launch posts come from the Doomers public launch directory, agencies’ own pages, X search and a detector that watches the repeat quoters.
For each launch post, the quotes X returns are read: at most about 240, in X’s own order, so every count is a floor.
Each quote gets its minute after the launch post; the first four hours are the window every number on these pages uses.
An account that quoted 10 or more different launch posts, each inside four hours, is a repeat quoter.
A launch wave is a launch post quoted by at least 5 of the 150 sentinel accounts within four hours. The rule is fixed and published.
Early quotes are rendered to see X’s “Paid partnership” label; agencies’ public pages are read for the launches they name. Each fact is kept apart.
What the data looks like in each case. Every card links the launch’s wave page and opens it on the map.
Skyfall AI posted on 2026-10-19 17:58 UTC. 106 accounts quoted it inside the first hour and 145 inside four hours; 138 of them are repeat quoters and 99 are sentinels. The 5th quote came at minute 7, the 50th at minute 19. X’s “Paid partnership” label was seen on 3 of 8 rendered quotes.
Of 9,592 accounts with a timed quote, 112 quoted 50+ launch posts and 270 quoted 20–49. The account with the most, @marcusyul, quoted 149 launch posts of 133 companies. On agency-claimed launches, 68% of early quotes came from repeat quoters; on launches with no agency claim found, 25%.
Tavus posted on 2026-10-01 16:59 UTC; 3 agency pages name this launch. Across the study, 68 launches carry an agency’s own claim; the companies’ pages (214 read) neither confirmed nor contradicted any of them: 0 confirmed, 0 contradicted. The claims stand as the agencies’ own words.
On Recursive’s launch, X’s “Paid partnership” label was seen on 7 of 10 rendered early quotes. Across the study the label was seen on 46% of rendered early quotes of agency-claimed launches, 36% of detector-found launches and 23% of launches with no agency claim found.
FDavidsonT posted on 2026-10-14 17:09 UTC: 141 accounts quoted it inside four hours, 135 of them repeat quoters, and no agency page names it. 326 of the 528 detector-found launches are launch waves with no agency claim found on the pages read.
Accounts, launches, companies and agencies as one graph, with dependent filters, a campaign timeline and a card for every node.
The map loads its data (6.3 MB) when opened.
What each agency’s own public pages say about launches, and what the companies’ pages say back.
The counts behind the patterns, by group of launches. A group is how a launch entered the study, not a verdict on it.
| Group | Launches | Launch waves | Waves per launch |
|---|---|---|---|
| agency-claimed | 104 | 69 | 66% |
| no agency claim found | 37 | 4 | 11% |
| detector-found | 528 | 326 | 62% |
| frontier labs | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| Group | Label seen | Rendered | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| agency-claimed | 118 | 256 | 46% |
| detector-found | 33 | 91 | 36% |
| no agency claim found | 32 | 140 | 23% |
| Group | From repeat quoters | Early quotes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| agency-claimed | 4,873 | 7,142 | 68% |
| detector-found | 16,639 | 28,309 | 59% |
| no agency claim found | 217 | 865 | 25% |
| frontier labs | 42 | 277 | 15% |
| Launch posts quoted | Accounts |
|---|---|
| 1 | 6,477 |
| 2-4 | 1,773 |
| 5-9 | 589 |
| 10-19 | 371 |
| 20-49 | 270 |
| 50+ | 112 |
Launches tracked and launch waves per month.
New launch waves are reported first on @anysite_io.