American Optimist ✓

@AmOptimistShow · joined 05 Dec 2022

Official Account of @JTLonsdale's American Optimist podcast 🎙📺 NEW EPISODES: https://t.co/bQnaq8kHE8

15 724Followers

224Following

1 027Posts total

1.2MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views878this account1 266median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.58%this account3.99%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.33%this account1.98%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	878	1 266	0.69×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.58%	3.99%	1.40×
Engagement rate	2.33%	1.98%	1.17×

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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

22.3K31 Aug

1.1M

26.5K1 Sep

522 Sep

810

239

9453 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.18%31 Aug

2.85%

0.80%1 Sep

17.31%2 Sep

20.59%

0.99%

7.53%

1.80%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.98%.

What the audience does

Likes70.5%23 961 in total

Reposts17.1%5 804 in total

Replies3.3%1 133 in total

Quotes2.3%785 in total

Bookmarks6.8%2 306 in total

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

Followers by day

4 Sep

Daily snapshots since 04 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

Tech leader Aaron Levie on the political backlash against AI: "When I look at Bernie Sanders talk about data centers, it's like, 'So you actually want people to die of cancer, right?' We don't want to have this amazing progress that will add 10 or 15 or 20 years to people's h 945 views · 13 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 @AmOptimistShow @MarkDavis I can’t believe the cofounder of Palantir supports mass warrantless surveillance 239 views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 "We can train a robot on a new task in minutes." @peteflorence and @JTLonsdale discuss the incredible breakthroughs in embodied foundation models (think LLMs for robots) and what that means for an explosion in general-purpose robots. https://t.co/TLpesctzMZ 810 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 @AmOptimistShow Quit trying to gaslight us. We don't want this type of civilization. We want to be free. We didn't have flock or all this technology in the 80s. We had great Christmases, malls, our parents weren't arrested for allowing us to ride our bikes places, and we are ind 68 views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 @AmOptimistShow There will be zero accountability for the left. These will be used 100% for crushing dissent and harassing innocent people while feral criminals run free. 52 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Joe Lonsdale on Flock: "The core of our Constitution is that we have to check our government; we have to watch it. [But] turning Flock off is just anti-civilization. It's going to help the criminals, which is what the far left wants here. There are ways we can use technology 26.5K views · 122 likes · 14 reposts · 60 replies 01 Sep 2026 🚨 JUST IN: Gov. Ron DeSantis' FDOT is hereby TAKING DOWN Flock cameras statewide over privacy concerns in state rights-of-way All existing permits for automated license plate readers, even installed by local law enforcement, in state highway rights-of-way — are REVOKED FDOT is 1.1M views · 23.8K likes · 5.8K reposts · 1.1K replies 31 Aug 2026 NEW: @JTLonsdale on AI backlash "If you’re on the right, you very correctly don’t trust these big tech platforms... Historically, the left doesn’t trust big companies that are out for a profit... [But] the right answer is not this low IQ, lowbrow rejection of everything... What 22.3K views · 31 likes · 3 reposts · 4 replies 31 Aug 2026