Forrest Knight earned 897K+ views cross-posting with Ferryman

The problem: great posts, one audience

Like most creators, Forrest has a home platform they actually enjoy posting on: X. The trouble with picking one platform is that your reach is capped by that platform's audience. The exact same post that lands on X could find an entirely new audience on Threads, but only if it's actually there. Manually re-posting the same content to every platform, every day, is the kind of chore that quietly never gets done.

The setup: connect once, post once

Forrest connected X as the origin and turned on Threads as a target. That's the whole setup. From then on, Forrest just posts on X like always. Ferryman watches for each new post, adapts it to every target platform's format and character limits, and publishes it everywhere. No copying, no pasting, no second app to remember.

The results: 897K+ views with zero extra effort

That automatic crosspost didn't just match the original. It took off on its own. Here's the actual post, ferried automatically from X:

X → Threads

“how it feels setting effort levels for your AI:”

897K

views

42.4K

likes

108

replies

675

reposts

Why it works

The insight is simple: the marginal cost of being on another platform should be zero. X is where Forrest writes, but the audiences on Threads are completely different people, and they'll never see content that isn't in front of them. By making distribution automatic, Ferryman turns one post into reach across every network at once. A post that would have only ever reached Forrest's X audience found 897K+ additional views somewhere else, for no additional work.

That's the whole pitch: post once, reach everywhere. You keep the workflow you already have and Ferryman quietly multiplies its reach in the background.

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