Real examples of buying intent on X (Twitter)
Every post below is real, public, and was found by a scan before anyone had answered it. The number beside each one is what our scorer gave it, and the line underneath is why.
Someone on X · 2h
I'm looking for a freelance framer designer?
Someone on X · 2h
Need a Framer developer for a quick project, fast turnarounds needed. Designs provided in figma, ready to go
Someone on X · 2h
need a korean skincare for black spots
Someone on X · 2h
If you had $25k to spend on full dental implants (All on 12), where would you go to get a good deal?
Most writing about social selling describes buying intent in the abstract. This page is the opposite: nine posts that a scan actually surfaced, with the score they were given and the reason recorded at the time. Names and pictures are left off, because what matters is the shape of the sentence rather than who wrote it.
The open ask
The clearest signal on the platform, and the shortest. Nobody elaborates. Somebody wants a person or a product and says so, and the reply window is a few hours.
Someone on X · 2h
I'm looking for a freelance framer designer?
Someone on X · 2h
Need a Framer developer for a quick project, fast turnarounds needed. Designs provided in figma, ready to go
Someone on X · 2h
need a korean skincare for black spots
Notice how little there is to work with. Six words about black spots carry no budget, no timeline and no detail, and the post still scored 78, because the one thing it does carry is a decision already made.
The budget already spoken for
A number in the post changes everything. The person is not wondering whether to spend, they are deciding where, and that is the shortest distance to a sale that exists on X.
Someone on X · 2h
If you had $25k to spend on full dental implants (All on 12), where would you go to get a good deal?
Someone on X · 2h
I am currently looking to hire a professional web designer with expertise in Figma, funnel design, and Conversion Rate Optimization
The problem, with no request attached
These never appear in a keyword alert, because there is no “looking for” in them. Somebody describes a thing that is not working, and the fact that a service exists for it has not occurred to them yet. They are the least competed for posts on the platform.
Someone on X · 2h
Our website gets outdated in a month because of all the shipping we do. Good problem to have, but I can't keep up with it constantly
Someone on X · 2h
OK X help me out, need to figure out how to improve conversion rate from landing page visit to signup, doing a few hundred visits a day
The second one is the pattern in miniature: a founder describing a conversion problem to their timeline, asking for help rather than for a supplier, and every designer who could fix it is somewhere else.
The stalled attempt
Someone who has already spent money or time proving they care, and now knows exactly what they need. Exhaustion is a stronger buying signal than curiosity.
Someone on X · 2h
I'm so tired of fighting pigmentation and acne marks. I'm officially resorting to k beauty. I tried the healthy diet, gut health, hormones
Someone on X · 2h
Looking for a Lead Gen Specialist. Need someone who can consistently find qualified US clients for my video editing agency
What scores nothing
The posts that never reach a board are worth naming, because they are what a keyword filter would have sent you instead.
- Industry commentary. Somebody admiring where the category has got to. Every keyword, no need.
- Other sellers. Freelancers and agencies describing what they offer use the same words as the people hiring them, and are the largest single source of false matches.
- Already answered. A good ask with four helpful replies underneath is somebody else's conversation.
- Priced out. A real need with a budget a tenth of the going rate is a disappointment waiting for both parties.
- Anyone in trouble. Grief, illness, an accident, a job lost. These sometimes contain the words a business searches for, and answering them with anything you sell is a harm. They score zero by rule, not by judgement.
Reading the scores
Nothing here scored a hundred, and nothing ever does. The band between roughly 75 and 90 is where the genuinely answerable asks sit: a stated need, an unserved thread, and a person who would buy rather than build. Below about 45 a post is interest rather than intent, and the board never shows it.
The scores also explain why a keyword list cannot do this work. Only two of the posts above contain the phrase “looking for”, while hundreds of posts a day contain it and are worth nothing at all. The difference is never the phrase.
Questions
What does buying intent look like on X?
A person stating a need of their own that nobody has met: asking who to hire, what to buy, or how to fix something they are stuck on. The examples on this page are real posts, scored between 78 and 88 out of 100 by ReachFast before anyone answered them.
How do you score a post for intent?
Every post is read against the offer it might match, not against a keyword list. The score rises when the need is first person, the person would buy rather than build, nobody has served them yet, and the budget or urgency is stated. It falls to nothing for industry commentary, other sellers, and anyone having a bad enough day that a sales reply would be an intrusion.
Are these real posts?
Yes. They are public posts found by real scans on customer boards, quoted without the author's name or picture because the point is the shape of the ask rather than the person who wrote it.
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