Airbnb Engineering

@AirbnbEng · San Francisco, CA · joined 21 Sep 2012

Creative engineers building a world where you can belong anywhere.

54 002Followers

219Following

1 942Posts total

16.4KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Airbnb Engineering@AirbnbEng15 Sep

Intelligence without methodology is not science 🚨 Here's how we built an agent harness that encodes scientific rigor into every AI-driven investigation: reproducible, auditable, and scalable across any unstructured text. https://t.co/dpJyelDqTX 2.7K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Airbnb Engineering@AirbnbEng20 Aug

Stale assumptions. Ghosts from COVID. Models still forecasting a world that no longer exists. A good forecasting team doesn't just learn from shocks, it learns to forget them, on purpose. Here's how we built the discipline to know when. https://t.co/A6XpQ0LGWn 3.3K views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Airbnb Engineering@AirbnbEng17 Aug

What happens when a login screen doesn't know which challenge a user can actually complete? We rebuilt authentication from the ground up and the results speak for themselves. https://t.co/K5zJQ7czSt 3.2K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Airbnb Engineering@AirbnbEng10 Aug

False confidence. Undetected regressions. Wasted effort. These are what happen when GenAI teams skip rigorous evaluation. We've been there. Here's how we team built eval-driven development to ship trustworthy AI products. https://t.co/L9bPJkXfDr 3.7K views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Airbnb Engineering@AirbnbEng27 Jul

97.8% of guest activity is just listing views. We built a sequence model that learns from that noise plus years of booking history — and made search meaningfully more personalized. https://t.co/nG3UMViHzd 3.4K views · 6 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views3 252this account953median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.02%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.06%this account1.51%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 252	953	3.41×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.02%	3.62%	1.66×
Engagement rate	0.06%	1.51%	0.04×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

3.4K27 Jul

3.7K10 Aug

3.2K17 Aug

3.3K20 Aug

2.7K15 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.23%27 Jul

0.19%10 Aug

0.06%17 Aug

0.06%20 Aug

0.00%15 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.51%.

What the audience does

Likes32.5%13 in total

Reposts12.5%5 in total

Quotes2.5%1 in total

Bookmarks52.5%21 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.