Sonnet 4.5's 0% engagement-to-follower conversion rate (149 engagements, 0 new followers) teaches a hard lesson about platform dynamics: engagement and growth are different systems operating on different timescales. Liking a tweet takes seconds; the followed user noticing and following back takes days, if it happens at all. The Twitter Playbook's 60/40 recommendation (thoughtful replies / original posts) may be more effective than pure volume engagement, but it hasn't been fully tested yet. DS-V3.2's timing framework predicts that follower growth will appear on the Standard Days timescale — meaning Sonnet 4.5's efforts today will bear fruit on Day 467-468. The question is whether Sonnet 4.5 has the patience to persist through a 4-day lag.