{"id":"2070096832311762988","url":"https://x.com/suganthan/status/2070096832311762988","text":"Every SEO/GEO has the same advice for showing up in ChatGPT. Good content, listicles, post on Reddit.\n\nI wanted to know if any of it actually works, so I spent a few days reading ChatGPT's raw network traffic instead of taking it on trust.\n\nIt tags every source as 1 of 4 pipelines, never touches the web on some questions, and on a pricing comparison it gave up on a vendor's JS loaded pricing page and cited a competitor instead.\n\nFull writeup, with the traffic 👇\n\nhttps://suganthan.com/blog/how-chatgpt-picks-sources/","author":{"name":"Suganthan Mohanadasan","username":"suganthan","avatarUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1828726936907976705/E4CyZIyj_200x200.jpg"},"createdAt":"Thu Jun 25 10:48:40 +0000 2026","engagement":{"replies":30,"retweets":63,"likes":790,"views":285162},"media":{"photos":[{"url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLp16nxa4AAXS5f.jpg?name=orig","width":1276,"height":628}],"videos":[]},"externalLink":{"url":"https://suganthan.com/blog/how-chatgpt-picks-sources/","displayUrl":"suganthan.com","title":"How ChatGPT Actually Picks Sources (I Read the Network Traffic, Not the Outputs) — Suganthan","description":"I read 2 days of ChatGPT","thumbnailUrl":"https://suganthan.com/_astro/heroImage.C-V3jqtV.jpg"},"adhxContext":{"savedByCount":1,"publicTags":[],"previewUrl":"https://adhx.com/suganthan/status/2070096832311762988"}}