Byrne Hobart ✓

@ByrneHobart · Austin, TX · joined 28 Mar 2007

The John Henry of excessive use of the em-dash. Tweets are map, not territory. Co-author: Boom (Stripe Press): https://t.co/u8do6HYFRF https://t.co/2zMEobDlr1

61 437Followers

1 729Following

33 798Posts total

257.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views4 356this account1 948median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.09%this account5.91%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.73%this account1.63%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 356	1 948	2.24×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.09%	5.91%	1.20×
Engagement rate	0.73%	1.63%	0.45×

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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

15.4K6 Jul

2.2K

2421 Jul

4.4K2 Sep

2.2K

205.5K3 Sep

15.4K

11K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.14%6 Jul

0.27%

0.00%21 Jul

0.73%2 Sep

0.32%

1.88%3 Sep

2.91%

3.69%

0.80%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.63%.

What the audience does

Likes94.3%4 728 in total

Reposts0.7%37 in total

Replies0.5%26 in total

Quotes0.2%11 in total

Bookmarks4.2%212 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.

Latest posts

Now that ARC-AGI-3 is saturated, we need a new set of benchmarks. To achieve frontier status, models must determine the sound of one hand clapping, and also measure what it shall profit a man if he gain the world and lose his own soul to within 0.00005%. 2K views · 15 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @ByrneHobart If they really like you they'll replace the dumb thing you said with bracketed words that sound better 11K views · 402 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 I think when writers say someone "speaks in complete paragraphs," what they basically mean is that the transcript needed minimal edits of this kind. 15.4K views · 446 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 I remember reading an interview years ago where I realized the writer was leaving in the umms, uhhhs, false starts, etc. to make the interviewee look stupid. It's a cheap trick! 205.5K views · 3.8K likes · 34 reposts · 17 replies 03 Sep 2026 Today's issue of Capital Gains is on the great Resorts International short squeeze of 1978. Casinos! Mobsters! A possible CIA front! A later cameo from Donald Trump! And two famous traders whose vacations got messed up by a big run in a small stock. https://t.co/rzneFp3vhz https 2.2K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 7yo: “Hey, mom! Can I kill you?” @amelapay “Try again.” 7yo: “Mom, may I please kill you?” 4.4K views · 31 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 @ByrneHobart Stories don’t exist in a vacuum，they grow with the people who watch them. 24 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 21 Jul 2026 https://t.co/IVH2UwgQeM 2.2K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 06 Jul 2026 Today's free issue of The Diff: the movie business is a go-to example of cultural stasis, but it's actually showing a rational response to peculiarities of the business. And that incentive is changing. Plus, a theory of the causes and social utility of genre parodies. https://t.c 15.4K views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 06 Jul 2026